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Emmew vs Emmet - What's the difference?

emmew | emmet |

As a verb emmew

is (obsolete) to mew or coop up.

As a proper noun emmet is

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emmew

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To mew or coop up.

    • 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.