Plural of emmet; archaic or dialectal term for ants.
From Old English 'æmete,' related to Germanic languages. 'Emmet' is an ancient English word for ant that survives mainly in dialect and historical texts.
Shakespeare used 'emmets' to mean ants—it's a word that's mostly disappeared from English except in British dialects and historical fiction, making it a linguistic fossil.
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