Definitions for pismires

pismires pis·mire

Spelling: [pis-mahyuh r, piz-]
IPA: /ˈpɪsˌmaɪər, ˈpɪz-/

Pismires is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in pismires (eiimprss).

Definitions for pismires

noun

  1. an ant.

Origin of pismires

1350-1400; Middle English pissemyre, equivalent to pisse to urinate + obsolete mire ant, perhaps Scandinavian (compare Danish myre, Swedish myra), cognate with Dutch mier; pejorative name fro

Examples for pismires

Celia: You would never be satisfied and you to see me working from dark to dark as hard as a pismire in the tufts.

At first he said he was a pismire, but the Speaker said pismire was not parliamentary, and he modified it to grasshopper.

An ancient name for the ant is pismire, probably a Danish word, from paid and myre, signifying such ants as live in hillocks.

Observe how the whole swarm divide and make way for the pismire that passes through them!

Thou art no more than a pismire; why wilt thou seek to provoke the elephants?

As if we should look upon an ant or pismire, the parts fly the sight, and the whole considered is almost nothing.

I've got a thousand-legged worm at the head of a pismire flush, and it serves us right, for a lot of slovens.

You must understand he is an emmet of quality, and has better blood in his veins than any pismire in the mole-hill.

You must understand he is an emmet of quality, and has better blood in his veins than any pismire in the molehill.

Bache tells us that pismire was also banned, antmire being substituted for it.

Word Value for pismires
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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