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emmet
noun
(
archaic
) An ant
1789
: Once a dream did weave a shade / O'er my angel-guarded bed / That an lost its way / Where on grass methought I lay. - William Blake,
Songs of Innocence
1993
: We are scurrying
emmets
or pismires with our sad little comedies. " Anthony Burgess,
A Dead Man in Deptford
(
Cornish dialect
) A tourist
Etymology:
emete,
Old English
ímete
. (bef. 12c) Cognate to
ant.
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