Definition of "emmets" [emmets]

• Plural form of emmet. (noun)

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• "A quarter of Britons thought the Cornish word for tourists -- "emmets" -- came from Spain or Greece, with a fifth of respondents thinking the Yorkshire term for a silly person - "a daft ha-porth" -- was a Danish or Polish phrase."
• "Here is Erasmus Darwin linking you and me intimately to ants (which he calls "emmets") and worms:"
• "They were ants, but of a very much larger species than the little red-and-black "emmets" which exist in the meadows."