different between emmew vs emmet

English

Etymology

Alteration of earlier immew.

Verb

emmew (third-person singular simple present emmews, present participle emmewing, simple past and past participle emmewed)

1. (obsolete) To mew or coop up.

English

Etymology

From Middle English emete, from Old English ?mete, (bef. 12c) Doublet of ant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?t/
• Rhymes: -?m?t

Noun

emmet (plural emmets)

1. (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, Songs of Innocence, A Dream:

     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.
2. (Cornwall, derogatory) A tourist.

See also

• grockle

Anagrams

• Temme

Estonian

Noun

emmet

1. partitive singular of emme

Tuareg

Etymology

From Proto-Afro-Asiatic. Cognate with Egyptian mwt and Arabic ???? (m?ta)

Verb

emmet

1. to die

References