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grasshoppering

grasshoppering is the present participle of grasshopper.

Meaning of grasshopper

Verb

grasshopper (third-person singular simple present grasshoppers, present participle grasshoppering, simple past and past participle grasshoppered)

  1. (transitive) Of a crop, to be ruined or destroyed by grasshoppers.
  2. (transitive) To move a riverboat over an obstruction, such as a sandbar.
  3. (rare, transitive) Of an animal, to hunt and eat grasshoppers.

See all 11 meanings of grasshopper

Questions about grasshoppering

What is grasshoppering the present participle of?
Grasshoppering is the present participle of grasshopper.

Words near grasshoppering in the dictionary

  1. Grasshopper Pueblo
  2. grasshopper warbler
  3. grasshopper warblers
  4. grasshopperdom
  5. grasshoppered
  6. grasshoppering
  7. grasshopperish
  8. grasshopperlike
  9. grasshoppers
  10. grasshopping
  11. grasshops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grasshoppering (page history and authors); grasshopper (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.

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