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gropper

gropper noun: the grasshopper warbler.

Noun

gropper (plural groppers)

  1. (UK, informal) The grasshopper warbler.
    • Enjoyed a wide range of Sedge warblers, heard a gropper, and saw a spoonbill, and our first house martins and swifts of the year. The avocets were grand (nearly 50 of them) and not as argumentative as usual at his time of the year.2001 April 29, Michael J Davis, “A grand day out and request for help”, in uk.rec.birdwatching (Usenet)
    • These overwhelmingly male gatherings remind me of paparazzi flocks I’ve encountered. Like a reluctant celebrity, the Pallas’s “gropper” (twitchers have their own language, as well as paparazzi-style ripping yarns about this trip or that shot) was skulking in the bushes.2017 September 25, Patrick Barkham, “Twitchers and groppers: when birdwatching turns ugly”, in The Guardian

Forms of gropper

pluralgroppers

Origin of gropper

Clipping of grasshopper.

Questions about gropper

What does gropper mean?
Gropper means the grasshopper warbler.
What part of speech is gropper?
Gropper is a noun.
What is the plural of gropper?
The plural of gropper is groppers.

Words near gropper in the dictionary

  1. groping
  2. gropingly
  3. gropings
  4. Gropnița
  5. Gropp
  6. gropper
  7. groppers
  8. gropple
  9. groppled
  10. gropples
  11. groppling

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