PISMIRE Definition & Meaning

pismire

[ pis-mahyuhr, piz- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an ant.

pismire

/ ˈ��ɪ��ˌ��ɪə /

noun

an archaic or dialect word for an ant

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of pismire¹

1350–1400; Middle English pissemyre, equivalent to pisse to urinate + obsolete mire ant, perhaps < Scandinavian (compare Danish myre, Swedish myra ), cognate with Dutch mier; pejorative name from stench of formic acid proper to ants

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of pismire¹

C14 (literally: urinating ant, from the odour of formic acid characteristic of an ant hill): from piss + obsolete mire ant, of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Norse maurr, Middle Low German ��ī�� ant

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All of us are able to smell ants, for which the great word pismire was originally coined.

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I never saw her again; that was fate, or...to never see the wanted is that phenomenal blindness; to never have the beauty is pismire.

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Then why do you squirm at the minute catastrophe of a few thousands or150 millions of pismires crushed under the wheels of evolution.

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An ancient name for the ant is “pismire,” probably a Danish word, from paid and myre, signifying such ants as live in hillocks.

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I know her by her waist, So long and thin, And so pinch'd in, Just in the pismire taste.

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