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grasshop en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From Middle English grashoppe, grashope, from Old English græshoppa (“grasshopper”). More at grasshopper.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, dialectal) A grasshopper.
    • The margin was illumined all with golden rails And bees, enpictured with grasshops and wasps, With butterflies and fresh peacock tails, Engloried with flowers and slimy snails; [...] 1930, Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania - Volume 2 - Page 58:
    • But by the scorched bank-sides i' thy footsteps still I go plodding: Hedge-rows hot do resound with grasshops mournfully squeaking. 1839, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the literature of Europe, Volume 2:
    • [...] between a gulp and a vomit, when they're looking at you like you're the dumb one so you can't keep on staring at them. Maybe she ate grasshops. Maybe somebody put out food. I put out food. 1995, G. Lish, The Quarterly - Volumes 29-30 - Page 18:
    • I don't want grasshops tew giv [sic] entirely out, not if they are a blessing, but i hav thought (to myself) if they would let the grass and cornstalks be, and pitch onto the burdoks and Canada thissells, i would bet a few dollars on the thissells, jist tew encourage the fight, and wouldn't care a cuss if they both got finally licked. 1868, Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings on Ice and Other Things:

Forms

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grasshops Number=Plur lexicographic

grasshop en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

Back-formation from grasshopper.

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To move erratically here and there, like a grasshopper.
    • He had to grasshop her, using long poles cabled to a donkey-engine capstan. Slowly, laboriously the ship inched backward, her fireboxes glowing orange-red, the crack of blocks and the booming slam of her engines shattering the night. 2011, Charles Ryan, Phoenix Strike:
    • It grasshops over the grass and bounds skyward. A matron crams a fresh stick of gum into her mouth and chews her words up with it. 1935, Frank Crowninshield, Vanity Fair - Volume 43, Issue 6 - Page 35:

Forms

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grasshops Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
grasshopping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
grasshopped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
grasshopped Tense=Past lexicographic