Word.ws English Dictionary

voetganger

voetganger noun: the crawling form of a locust, not yet able to fly.

Noun

voetganger (plural voetgangers)

  1. (South Africa) The crawling form of a locust, not yet able to fly.

Forms of voetganger

pluralvoetgangers

Origin of voetganger

Borrowed from Afrikaans voetganger, from Dutch voetganger, from Middle Dutch voetganger.

Questions about voetganger

What does voetganger mean?
Voetganger means the crawling form of a locust, not yet able to fly.
What part of speech is voetganger?
Voetganger is a noun.
What is the plural of voetganger?
The plural of voetganger is voetgangers.

Words near voetganger in the dictionary

  1. voenkomat
  2. Voerendaal
  3. Voertigern
  4. voertsek
  5. voes
  6. voetganger
  7. voetgangers
  8. Voetian
  9. Voetianism
  10. voetsak
  11. voetsek

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: voetganger (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: “voetganger.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/voetganger. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.