anty-mire

English

Noun

anty-mire (plural anty-mires)

1. Alternative form of antmire (“ant”)
   • 1887, Mrs. A. E. Anderson Maskell, Children with the Birds, page 320:

     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.

   • 1921, Edward Fuller Bigelow, The Guide to Nature - Volume 13, Issue 12, page 191:

     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.