antmire

Etymology
Alteration of by the Puritan settlers of the New World, equivalent to 🇰🇲. The Puritans were known to have adopted new terms or to have modified other ones to have less potential for offensiveness, hence the use of for  in North America,  for, etc.

The form is likely a minced alteration of, a variant of.

Noun

 * 1)  An ant.