Emmet vs Grockel - What's the difference?
emmet | grockel | see also |
(archaic) An ant.
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.47:
* 1789 , William Blake, Songs of Innocence , :
* 1814 , William Wordsworth, The Excursion , IV.430:
* 1993 , Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford :
(Cornish dialect, pejorative) A tourist.
Outsider from the English West Country, especially tourist.
* "I also only learned this year that people dont use the word grockel , akker, and dimpsey in other places." [http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Society-and-Culture/Question423700.html]
* "So naturally because of this over-hyped nonsense the roads into Portsmouth were chock-a-block with grockels ." [http://www.madhousebeyond.com/?mode=docview&view=southseashow]
As nouns the difference between emmet and grockel
is that emmet is an ant while grockel is outsider from the English West Country, especially tourist.As a proper noun Emmet
is {{surname}.emmet
English
Noun
(en noun)- He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets […].
- 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.
- [A benignity that] to the emmet gives / Her foresight, and intelligence that makes / The tiny creatures strong by social league.
- We are scurrying emmets or pismires with our sad little comedies.