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7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
originFrom Middle English pissemyre, equivalent to piss + mire (“ant”). So called due to the smell of anthills. Compare English pissant, Old Frisian pisimme, Dutch pismiere, Swedish pissmyra.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Also spells
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