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Emmet vs Grackle - What's the difference?

emmet | grackle |

As a proper noun emmet

is .

As a noun grackle is

any of several american blackbirds of the genus quiscalus having iridescent plumage.

emmet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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  […].
  • * 1789 , William Blake, 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.
  • (Cornish dialect, pejorative) A tourist.

    • grackle

    English

    (wikipedia grackle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several American blackbirds of the genus Quiscalus having iridescent plumage
  • Any of several Asian myna birds of the genus Gracula

    • Derived terms

    * boat-tailed grackle * Carib grackle * common grackle * golden-tufted grackle * greater Antillean grackle * great-tailed grackle * mountain grackle * Nicaraguan grackle * red-bellied grackle * slender-billed grackle * velvet-fronted grackle