pismire

Definitions

Examples

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

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

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

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

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