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anty-mire en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of antmire (“ant”).
When I was a child I was taught that ants were anty-mires. Probably all country children were taught the same name for the wonderful insect.
1921, Edward Fuller Bigelow, The Guide to Nature - Volume 13, Issue 12, page 191:I could tell you ten things about a bee or an anty-mire—but a goose—I'd 'no though but she do hev some curious ways.
1887, Mrs. A. E. Anderson Maskell, Children with the Birds, page 320:
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