| 释义 |
hoppergrass orig. and chiefly U.S. dial.
= grasshopper.
1829Virginia Lit. Museum I. 458 Hoppergrass. This word is often used in the south for grasshopper. 1892Rep. Vermont Board Agric. XII. 163 Alas! the ‘hopper grasses’ came and carried it away. 1934R. Campbell Broken Record viii. 200 Spectacles make men look like ridiculous hoppergrasses. 1955E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 7 ‘Chkk! chkk!’ hopper-grass, Nothing but grasshoppers hopping past. 1970C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 67 Hopper grass, grasshopper. |