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English
Etymology
From Middle English emete, from Old English ǣmete, (bef. 12c) Doublet of ant.
Pronunciation
Noun
emmet (plural emmets)
- (dialectal or archaic) An ant.
- , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.47:
- He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets
- 1666, Dr. Edmund King, Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678) Observations Concerning Emmets or Ants, Their Eggs, Production, Progress, Coming to Maturity, Use, &c
- before 1729, Edward Taylor, "Meditation. Joh. 14.2. I go to prepare a place for you":
- What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise?
- An Emmet match an Emperor in might?
1789, William Blake, “A Dream”, in Songs of Innocence:Once a dream did weave a shade / O'er my angel-guarded bed / That an emmet lost its way / Where on grass methought I lay.
1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, IV.430:[A benignity that] to the emmet gives / Her foresight, and intelligence that makes / The tiny creatures strong by social league.
1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:We are scurrying emmets or pismires with our sad little comedies.
- (Cornwall, derogatory) A tourist.
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Noun
emmet
- partitive singular of emme