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mer-mery

Dictionary entry

mer-mery • vn • be handsome, be beautiful, be pretty

Lexicon record # 1889 | Source reference(s): R224 JE17 JE105

Sentence examples (2)

  1. Says, Kep-'el 'o 'oo-le'm' nue-mee mer-ger-mery we'-yo-no'.
    (He) says, At Kep'el there are very beautiful girls.

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    — Georgiana Trull, Moon and His Wife (GT2, 2003)

  2. Kwe-see Se-gep noohl 'o ge's, To' ch'ue-me'y 'ue-mer-ger-mery k'ee we'-yon.
    Then Coyote thought, How very pretty that girl is.

    — Florence Shaughnessy, "The Young Man from Serper" (LA16-7, 1951)