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What 's the difference between a gnat and a rodent?
"Middle English, from Old English gnætt; akin to Old English gnagan to gnaw first known use: before 12th century"
Do gnats have teeth?
"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]"
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