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Hemming vs Lemming - What's the difference?

hemming | lemming |

As a proper noun hemming

is .

As a noun lemming is

lemming.

hemming

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of saying "hem", in intermission or hesitation of speech.
  • * 1847 , The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review (page 285)
    • Blushing and stammering, awkward pauses, hemmings and hawings, tremblings of voice, and confusion in all its shapes there were between them

    lemming

    English

    (wikipedia lemming) (Arvicolinae)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small Arctic and Subarctic rodent from any of six genera of similar rodents.
  • (figuratively) Any member of a group given to conformity or groupthink, especially a group poised to follow a leader off a cliff.

    • Derived terms

    * bog lemmings, spp. * collared lemmings, spp. * steppe lemming, * true lemmings, Lemmus spp. * wood lemming, * yellow steppe lemmings, spp.