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grasshop

grasshop noun: a grasshopper.

Noun

grasshop (plural grasshops)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) A grasshopper.
    • 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
    • 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...1868, Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings on Ice and Other Things

Verb

grasshop (third-person singular simple present grasshops, present participle grasshopping, simple past and past participle grasshopped)

  1. (ambitransitive) To move erratically here and there, like a grasshopper.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of grasshop

Noun
pluralgrasshops
Verb
third-person singular presentgrasshops
present participlegrasshopping
past participlegrasshopped
pastgrasshopped

Origin of grasshop

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

Back-formation from grasshopper.

Questions about grasshop

What does grasshop mean?
Grasshop means a grasshopper.
What part of speech is grasshop?
Grasshop can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of grasshop?
The plural of grasshop is grasshops.

Words near grasshop in the dictionary

  1. grassfrog
  2. grasshawk
  3. grasshawks
  4. grasshook
  5. grasshooks
  6. grasshop
  7. grasshopped
  8. grasshopper
  9. grasshopper green
  10. grasshopper greens
  11. grasshopper mice

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