pissemyre
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Middle English
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pissemyre (plural pissemyres)
- a pismire; an ant
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Summoner's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:
- He is as angry as a pissemyre, / Þogh þat he have al þat he kan desire […]
- He is as angry as an ant / Though he has all that he could ever desire […]
Descendants
References
- “pisse-mīre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-21.