Word.ws English Dictionary

foot-ganger

foot-ganger is the alternative form of footganger.

Meaning of footganger

Noun

footganger (plural footgangers)

  1. A juvenile locust or grasshopper while in its wingless or flightless phase.
    • Midway between Bloomfontein and Kimberley, while riding with Major Beresford, of the South African Constabulary, at the foot of some low hills in the Karoo bush, I came across great numbers of the footgangers.1902, Journal of the Society of Arts

Forms of foot-ganger

pluralfoot-gangers

Questions about foot-ganger

What is foot-ganger the alternative form of?
Foot-ganger is the alternative form of footganger.

Words near foot-ganger in the dictionary

  1. foot-dragging
  2. foot-draggings
  3. foot-fall
  4. foot-falls
  5. foot-flagging
  6. foot-ganger
  7. foot-gangers
  8. foot-goer
  9. foot-goers
  10. foot-in-mouth disease
  11. foot-in-the-door technique

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: foot-ganger (page history and authors); footganger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “foot-ganger.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/foot-ganger. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.