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pis⋅mire

  [pis-mahyuhr, piz-]
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–noun
an ant.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME pissemyre, equiv. to pisse to urinate + obs. mire ant, perh. < Scand (cf. Dan myre, Sw myra), c. D mier; pejorative name from stench of formic acid proper to ants
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pis·mire   (pĭs'mīr', pĭz'-)   
n.  An ant.

[Middle English pissemyre : pisse, urine (from the smell of the formic acid that ants secrete); see piss + mire, ant (probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Danish myre).]
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Word Origin & History

pismire 
c.1386, from pyss "urine" (in reference to the acrid smell of an anthill) + mire "an ant," probably from O.N. maurr "ant," perhaps distantly connected with Gk. myrmex, L. formica "ant." Cf. pissant, also early Du. mierseycke (from seycke "urine"), Finn. kusiainen (from kusi "urine").
"He is an angry as a pissemyre,
Though þat he haue al that he kan desire."
[Chaucer]
Applied contemptuously to persons from 1569.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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