silkie man
Scots
Alternative forms
selkie man
Etymology
selkie
(
“
grey seal, common seal
”
)
+
man
(
“
man
”
)
Noun
silkie
man
(
plural
silkie men
)
a
male
selkie
; a kind of
merman
Further reading
“
selch
”, in
The Dictionary of the Scots Language
, Edinburgh:
Scottish Language Dictionaries
, 2004–present,
→OCLC
.