emmetn.

Brit.

/ˈɛmᵻt/, U.S.

/ˈɛmət/

Forms:

α. early Old English (Kentish)–Middle English emete, Middle English ematte, Middle English–1500s emote, 1500s emmette, 1500s emmont, 1500s emot, 1500s–1600s emet, 1500s–1600s emmot, 1500s–1600s emmote, 1500s–1600s emmott, 1500s–1600s emmotte, 1500s– emmet, 1600s emett, 1600s–1700s emmit; English regional 1800s– emmet, 1800s– emmot, 1800s– emmut, 1900s– ermit (Cumberland), 1900s– yemmet (south-western), 2000s– emmett; Scottish pre-1700 emet, pre-1700 emmot, pre-1700 emot, pre-1700 imat, pre-1700 1700s– nemot, pre-1700 1800s emmet, 1900s– eemert, 1900s– emert, 1900s– emmert; N.E.D. (1891) also records a form Middle English emet.

β. Middle English empt, Middle English empte.

γ. Scottish pre-1700 1700s imock, 1700s 1900s– emmack, 1800s imok, 1800s– eemock, 1800s– eemuck, 1800s– emmock, 1800s– emock, 1800s– immick, 1900s– aymock, 1900s– aymuck, 1900s– eemach, 1900s– eemack, 1900s– eemake, 1900s– eemich, 1900s– eenuck (Midlothian), 1900s– eerick (Berwickshire), 1900s– eimok, 1900s– elmick (Berwickshire), 1900s– emmic, 1900s– emmick, 1900s– emmoch, 1900s– emoch, 1900s– imick, 1900s– immock; Welsh English (Pembrokeshire) 1900s– emmak.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: ant n.¹

Etymology: Variant of ant n.¹ (see discussion at that entry).The English regional (south-western) form yemmet at α. forms shows the development of a front glide (compare yammet at ant n.¹ α. forms). The Scots form nemot at α. forms shows metanalysis (see N n.). With the β. forms compare β. forms at ant n.¹ The γ. forms apparently show alteration after -ock suffix.

Now chiefly British regional.

1. = ant n.¹ 1. Frequently poetic or archaic.horse-emmet: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant

anteOE

emmeteOE

mirea1300

maur1366

pismirec1395

formice1484

merpyss1527

calicrat?1590

pissant1649

formica1865

muryan1865

macraner1907

eOE (Kentish) Glosses to Proverbs of Solomon (Vesp. D.vi) in U. Kalbhen Kentische Glossen (2003) 157 Formicę : emetan.

c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 2141 Faste hi schove and crope ek as emeten.

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 6556 Ȝet þere ben emoten yfounden Þat ben more þan grehonden.

c1480 (a1400) St. James Great 137 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 101 Na mycht haff we to grewe..a nemot, quhare þat þu restis þi corse.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxlviii Lerne man of the symple Emet.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. vii. 80 Lyke emmotis..Quhen thai depulȝe the mekill byng of quhete.

1610 Bible (Douay) II. Prov. vi. 6 Goe to the emmote ô sluggard.

1650 W. Brough Sacred Princ. 160 All creatures, from the Emmet to the Angell.

1713 J. Addison in Guardian 5 Sept. 2/1 He is an Emmit of Quality.

1779 S. Johnson Pope in Wks. IV. 99 Looking on mankind..as on emmets of a hillock.

1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 293 The horse emmet, or great hill-ant.

1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 81 Emmet, apprehending helpless eld.

1913 J. H. Paul et al. Farm Friends & Spring Flowers 131 How may we classify the emmet or ant race ?

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1285 ‘An emmet may cry its heart out, but it will never make honey.’ Yet what about the honey-ants!

1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 193 Emmet's stalk (an emmet is an ant), Som.

2001 D. Rhodes Don't tell me Truth about Love 117 Oh, it is just like the emmets as they go along the ground. I make it sound so simple, but it is really not simple at all.

2. In Cornwall: a holidaymaker or tourist; a summer visitor. Usually in plural (esp. with reference to large crowds). Cf. grockle n. depreciative or humorous.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > tourist

tourist1780

resorter1871

tourer1931

grockle1964

emmet1975

1975 Times 24 Mar. 4/3 While many people on Cornwall's coasts are airing the beds..a few are putting up stickers saying ‘Emmits go home’.

1984 Listener 20 Sept. 23/1 ‘Grockle’ is the Devonian word for tourist, or tripper, or summer visitor. In Cornwall the word is ‘emmet’.

1993 B. Murdoch Cornish Lit. vi. 149 Webb's poem is called ‘emmits’ in English, the local slang term for such incomers.

2008 R. Parkyn Balaclava Boy xv. 143 Can't all be emmets. Well, you wouldn't want to be driving to work through all that, it'd be a nightmare.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

emmet-hill n.

ΚΠ

c1450 in W. R. Dawson Leechbk. (1934) 100 (MED) Take the white that bene emonge empt hillis that bene clepid empt hors.

1583 M. M. S. tr. B. de las Casas Spanish Colonie sig. A All ful of people, as an Emmote hill of Emmots.

1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. x. 95 The Cowes giving blood for milk might proceed from another natural cause, viz. from lying upon an Ant or Emmot hill.

1796 R. Broome Simkin Redivivus to Simon 28 As well might arithmetic set about counting The ratio an emmet-hill bears to a mountain.

1855 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 27 5/1 The meadows..were, only a few years since, sheep-common, covered with emmet-hills, brambles, rushes, &c.

1948 J. E. Minter Chagres ii. 8 Ant bears probe the man-high emmet hills with their long, sticky tongues.

emmet-swarm n.

ΚΠ

1746 A. Hill Free Thoughts upon Faith 5 See'st thou not, everywhere, Earth's emmet Swarms, Scheming their busy Mount's loose crumbling Hope.

1885 Academy 10 Oct. 235 The emmet-swarm of popular scribblers.

C2.

emmet-batch n. [perhaps compare batch n.¹ 6b] an anthill.

ΚΠ

1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 36 Emmet-batch, an ant-hill.

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Emmet-batch, an ant-hill, Somerset.

1908 Catholic World Apr. 94 She ain't strong enough in the arms to turn the bed now, and sometimes it be that heapy, it do mind I o' emmet's-batches.

emmet-butt n. an anthill (see butt n.¹³).

ΚΠ

1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 49 Emett Butts.

1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 232 While the ragged colts did crop The nibbled grass, I used to hop The emmet buts vrom top to top.

1892 T. Compton Mendip Valley xi. 162 The common Green Woodpecker..frequents our elms and orchards, and is often seen on the ground searching among the ‘emmet-butts’.

1981 J. Hadfield New Shell Guide to Eng. (ed. 2) 34 In Dorset they talk about an anthill as an emmet-butt.

emmet-cast n. an anthill (see cast n. 19).

ΚΠ

a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 445 Walking out with me in my meads, and observing the emmet-casts, he told me, he had tried many ways to destroy them.

1906 A. Austin Garden that I Love (new ed.) 96 On the top of this I placed a layer of half-rotted emmet-casts, so as to keep the drainage fairly open.

1976 Garden (Royal Hort. Soc.) June 323/1 A great preponderance of pasture was permanent (and full of emmet casts as we call ant hills in Sussex).

emmet-hunter n. British regional the wryneck, Jynx torquilla.

ΚΠ

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Jynx, the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter, or as some say, the Wag-tail.

1837 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds III. 100 Wryneck, [Provincial name] Emmet-hunter.

1908 R. Kearton Brit. Birds' Nests (new ed.) 517 Local and other names : Snake Bird, Cuckoo's Mate, Tongue Bird, Emmet Hunter, Long Tongue, Barking Bird.

1937 A. G. Chater tr. S. Undset Faithful Wife 180 ‘What was that name you had for the wryneck in your part of the country?’ ‘Emmet-hunter,’ he said in surprise.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	emmet
释义	emmetn. Brit. /ˈɛmᵻt/, U.S. /ˈɛmət/ Forms: α. early Old English (Kentish)–Middle English emete, Middle English ematte, Middle English–1500s emote, 1500s emmette, 1500s emmont, 1500s emot, 1500s–1600s emet, 1500s–1600s emmot, 1500s–1600s emmote, 1500s–1600s emmott, 1500s–1600s emmotte, 1500s– emmet, 1600s emett, 1600s–1700s emmit; English regional 1800s– emmet, 1800s– emmot, 1800s– emmut, 1900s– ermit (Cumberland), 1900s– yemmet (south-western), 2000s– emmett; Scottish pre-1700 emet, pre-1700 emmot, pre-1700 emot, pre-1700 imat, pre-1700 1700s– nemot, pre-1700 1800s emmet, 1900s– eemert, 1900s– emert, 1900s– emmert; N.E.D. (1891) also records a form Middle English emet. β. Middle English empt, Middle English empte. γ. Scottish pre-1700 1700s imock, 1700s 1900s– emmack, 1800s imok, 1800s– eemock, 1800s– eemuck, 1800s– emmock, 1800s– emock, 1800s– immick, 1900s– aymock, 1900s– aymuck, 1900s– eemach, 1900s– eemack, 1900s– eemake, 1900s– eemich, 1900s– eenuck (Midlothian), 1900s– eerick (Berwickshire), 1900s– eimok, 1900s– elmick (Berwickshire), 1900s– emmic, 1900s– emmick, 1900s– emmoch, 1900s– emoch, 1900s– imick, 1900s– immock; Welsh English (Pembrokeshire) 1900s– emmak. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: ant n.¹ Etymology: Variant of ant n.¹ (see discussion at that entry).The English regional (south-western) form yemmet at α. forms shows the development of a front glide (compare yammet at ant n.¹ α. forms). The Scots form nemot at α. forms shows metanalysis (see N n.). With the β. forms compare β. forms at ant n.¹ The γ. forms apparently show alteration after -ock suffix. Now chiefly British regional. 1. = ant n.¹ 1. Frequently poetic or archaic.horse-emmet: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant anteOE emmeteOE mirea1300 maur1366 pismirec1395 formice1484 merpyss1527 calicrat?1590 pissant1649 formica1865 muryan1865 macraner1907 eOE (Kentish) Glosses to Proverbs of Solomon (Vesp. D.vi) in U. Kalbhen Kentische Glossen (2003) 157 Formicę : emetan. c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 2141 Faste hi schove and crope ek as emeten. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 6556 Ȝet þere ben emoten yfounden Þat ben more þan grehonden. c1480 (a1400) St. James Great 137 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 101 Na mycht haff we to grewe..a nemot, quhare þat þu restis þi corse. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxlviii Lerne man of the symple Emet. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. vii. 80 Lyke emmotis..Quhen thai depulȝe the mekill byng of quhete. 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Prov. vi. 6 Goe to the emmote ô sluggard. 1650 W. Brough Sacred Princ. 160 All creatures, from the Emmet to the Angell. 1713 J. Addison in Guardian 5 Sept. 2/1 He is an Emmit of Quality. 1779 S. Johnson Pope in Wks. IV. 99 Looking on mankind..as on emmets of a hillock. 1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 293 The horse emmet, or great hill-ant. 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 81 Emmet, apprehending helpless eld. 1913 J. H. Paul et al. Farm Friends & Spring Flowers 131 How may we classify the emmet or ant race ? a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1285 ‘An emmet may cry its heart out, but it will never make honey.’ Yet what about the honey-ants! 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 193 Emmet's stalk (an emmet is an ant), Som. 2001 D. Rhodes Don't tell me Truth about Love 117 Oh, it is just like the emmets as they go along the ground. I make it sound so simple, but it is really not simple at all. 2. In Cornwall: a holidaymaker or tourist; a summer visitor. Usually in plural (esp. with reference to large crowds). Cf. grockle n. depreciative or humorous. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > tourist tourist1780 resorter1871 tourer1931 grockle1964 emmet1975 1975 Times 24 Mar. 4/3 While many people on Cornwall's coasts are airing the beds..a few are putting up stickers saying ‘Emmits go home’. 1984 Listener 20 Sept. 23/1 ‘Grockle’ is the Devonian word for tourist, or tripper, or summer visitor. In Cornwall the word is ‘emmet’. 1993 B. Murdoch Cornish Lit. vi. 149 Webb's poem is called ‘emmits’ in English, the local slang term for such incomers. 2008 R. Parkyn Balaclava Boy xv. 143 Can't all be emmets. Well, you wouldn't want to be driving to work through all that, it'd be a nightmare. Compounds C1. General attributive. emmet-hill n. ΚΠ c1450 in W. R. Dawson Leechbk. (1934) 100 (MED) Take the white that bene emonge empt hillis that bene clepid empt hors. 1583 M. M. S. tr. B. de las Casas Spanish Colonie sig. A All ful of people, as an Emmote hill of Emmots. 1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. i. x. 95 The Cowes giving blood for milk might proceed from another natural cause, viz. from lying upon an Ant or Emmot hill. 1796 R. Broome Simkin Redivivus to Simon 28 As well might arithmetic set about counting The ratio an emmet-hill bears to a mountain. 1855 Brit. Farmer's Mag. 27 5/1 The meadows..were, only a few years since, sheep-common, covered with emmet-hills, brambles, rushes, &c. 1948 J. E. Minter Chagres ii. 8 Ant bears probe the man-high emmet hills with their long, sticky tongues. emmet-swarm n. ΚΠ 1746 A. Hill Free Thoughts upon Faith 5 See'st thou not, everywhere, Earth's emmet Swarms, Scheming their busy Mount's loose crumbling Hope. 1885 Academy 10 Oct. 235 The emmet-swarm of popular scribblers. C2. emmet-batch n. [perhaps compare batch n.¹ 6b] an anthill. ΚΠ 1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 36 Emmet-batch, an ant-hill. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Emmet-batch, an ant-hill, Somerset. 1908 Catholic World Apr. 94 She ain't strong enough in the arms to turn the bed now, and sometimes it be that heapy, it do mind I o' emmet's-batches. emmet-butt n. an anthill (see butt n.¹³). ΚΠ 1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 49 Emett Butts. 1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 232 While the ragged colts did crop The nibbled grass, I used to hop The emmet buts vrom top to top. 1892 T. Compton Mendip Valley xi. 162 The common Green Woodpecker..frequents our elms and orchards, and is often seen on the ground searching among the ‘emmet-butts’. 1981 J. Hadfield New Shell Guide to Eng. (ed. 2) 34 In Dorset they talk about an anthill as an emmet-butt. emmet-cast n. an anthill (see cast n. 19). ΚΠ a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 445 Walking out with me in my meads, and observing the emmet-casts, he told me, he had tried many ways to destroy them. 1906 A. Austin Garden that I Love (new ed.) 96 On the top of this I placed a layer of half-rotted emmet-casts, so as to keep the drainage fairly open. 1976 Garden (Royal Hort. Soc.) June 323/1 A great preponderance of pasture was permanent (and full of emmet casts as we call ant hills in Sussex). emmet-hunter n. British regional the wryneck, Jynx torquilla. ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Jynx, the Wry-neck, or Emmet-hunter, or as some say, the Wag-tail. 1837 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds III. 100 Wryneck, [Provincial name] Emmet-hunter. 1908 R. Kearton Brit. Birds' Nests (new ed.) 517 Local and other names : Snake Bird, Cuckoo's Mate, Tongue Bird, Emmet Hunter, Long Tongue, Barking Bird. 1937 A. G. Chater tr. S. Undset Faithful Wife 180 ‘What was that name you had for the wryneck in your part of the country?’ ‘Emmet-hunter,’ he said in surprise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.eOE
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