pismire

Historical Examples of pismire

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

  Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 8, May 21, 1870

  Various

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

  Woodcraft and Camping

  George Washington Sears (Nessmuk)

• Bache tells us that pismire was also banned, antmire being substituted for it.

  The American Language

  Henry L. Mencken

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

  Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter

  Ben Jonson

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

  The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  Edward Gibbon