wasserman

See also: Wasserman

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wasserman.

Noun

wasserman (plural wassermen)

(obsolete) A mythical sea monster, part man, thought to destroy ships.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:
  The dreadfull Fish, that hath deseru'd the name / Of Death, and like him lookes in dreadfull hew, / The griesly Wasserman, that makes his game / The flying ships with swiftnesse to pursew […]

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