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Synonyms for gnat
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : nat |
Phonetic Transcription : næt |
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Définition of gnat
Origin :- Old English gnætt "gnat, midge, mosquito," earlier gneat, used of various small, flying insects, from Proto-Germanic *gnattaz (cf. Low German gnatte, German Gnitze); perhaps literally "biting insect" and related to gnaw.
- The gnatte is a litil fflye, and hatte culex..he soukeþ blood and haþ in his mouþ a pipe, as hit were a pricke..And is a-countid a-mong volatiles..and greueþ slepinge men wiþ noyse & wiþ bytinge and wakeþ hem of here reste. [John of Trevisa, transl. of Bartholomew de Glanville's "De proprietatibus rerum," 1398]
- As in insect : noun bug
- As in bug : noun insect
- He walked round them the first time, but there was no sign of the gnat.
- Extract from : « Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales » by Anonymous
- The charming creatures will neither strain at a camel nor swallow a gnat.
- Extract from : « Notes on Life and Letters » by Joseph Conrad
- The Gnat lay in the roadstead off Rathmullan, beyond reach that night.
- Extract from : « Kilgorman » by Talbot Baines Reed
- I would shelter there till daylight summoned me to my post of duty on the Gnat.
- Extract from : « Kilgorman » by Talbot Baines Reed
- But this would be straining at a gnat, and swallowing a camel.
- Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 » by Various
- To these must be added the Druid frigate, the sloop of war, and the Gnat.
- Extract from : « The Two Admirals » by J. Fenimore Cooper
- The gnat is a case in point: the water-bug, common in our ponds and ditches, is another.
- Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1905. » by Various
- I believe that the man and the gnat are in the same predicament.
- Extract from : « The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I (of II) » by Charles Darwin
- Let the gnat fly as hard as he may, he will never keep up with the wind.
- Extract from : « Mystics and Saints of Islam » by Claud Field
- The one that causes the most irritation is smaller than the average English gnat.
- Extract from : « India and the Indians » by Edward F. Elwin
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