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Pismire
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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| pismire (ˈpɪsˌmaɪə) | |
| —n | |
| an archaic or dialect word for an ant | |
| [C14 (literally: urinating ant, from the odour of formic acid characteristic of an ant hill): from | |
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Word Origin & History
pismire
late 14c., 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").
EXPAND"He is as angry as a pissemyre,Applied contemptuously to persons from 1560s.
Though þat he haue al that he kan desire."
[Chaucer]
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