grasshopper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English grashoppere, alteration of earlier grashoppe, from Old English græshoppa (“grasshopper”). Equivalent to grass + hopper. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäärshupper, Dutch grashupper, grashipper, German Low German Grashüpper, Gresshüpper, German Grashüpfer, Danish græshoppe, Swedish gräshoppa, Norwegian gresshoppe.
Base: grass
Inflected forms:
form: grasshoppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grasshoppers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grasshoppering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grasshoppered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grasshoppered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A mostly herbivorous insect of the order Orthoptera, noted for its ability to jump long distances and for the habit of some species communicating by stridulation; they are related to but distinct from crickets.
pos: noun
examples: Even in my happiest moments, while the grass was crowded with flowers beneath me—the sweet monotony of the running water in mine ear, only broken by the cheerful chant of the grasshopper—the boughs of the chestnut, filled with sunshine, dazzling my eyes, till the golden air seemed thronged with lovely shapes,—even then came pale and mournful shadows, whose white faces looked upon me pityingly.
But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels.
gloss: A mostly herbivorous insect of the order Orthoptera, noted for its ability to jump long distances and for the habit of some species communicating by stridulation; they are related to but distinct from crickets.
pos: noun
gloss: A mostly herbivorous insect of the order Orthoptera, noted for its ability to jump long distances and for the habit of some species communicating by stridulation; they are related to but distinct from crickets.
pos: noun
gloss: A cocktail made with crème de menthe and optionally with crème de cacao.
pos: noun
examples: Does he order Scotch-on-the-rocks in a low, mean voice? No? A Bud? No? A grasshopper, heavy on the creme de menthe? Right!
gloss: A young student in the initial stages of training who has been chosen on account of their obvious talent.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Although we don't know exactly why Li is chosen to dance, we witness a man assuring officials that the child isn't from bourgeois stock. Phew. There are no known landowners in the family, so the grasshopper passes some cultural purity test, in a state often fixated on class warfare, driven by the cult of personality, and bullied by paranoia.
gloss: A frequent user of marijuana.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key.
pos: noun
examples: John Geib […]patented the hopper with two separate escapements, one of which soon became adopted in the grasshopper of the square piano
gloss: A fairy chess piece which moves orthogonally or diagonally, but must hop over a piece to move or capture, landing one square beyond the hopped piece.
pos: noun
gloss: Of a crop, to be ruined or destroyed by grasshoppers.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To move a riverboat over an obstruction, such as a sandbar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of an animal, to hunt and eat grasshoppers.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
Related words: grasshop
Derived words: admirable grasshopper
American bird grasshopper
bird grasshopper
blue-winged grasshopper
differential grasshopper
grasshopperdom
grasshopper engine
Grasshopper Falls
grasshopper green
grasshopperish
grasshopperlike
grasshopper lobster
grasshopper mouse
grasshopper pie
Grasshopper Pueblo
grasshopper warbler
green grasshopper
knee-high to a grasshopper
knee high to a grasshopper
long-horned grasshopper
migratory grasshopper
Pallas's grasshopper warbler
short-horned grasshopper
spur-throated grasshopper
three-banded grasshopper
trail ridge scrub grasshopper
two-striped grasshopper
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