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单词 grasshopper
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grasshoppern.

Brit. /ˈɡrɑːsˌhɒpə/, /ˈɡrasˌhɒpə/, U.S. /ˈɡræsˌ(h)ɑpər/
Forms: see grass n.1 and hopper n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: grass n.1, hopper n.1
Etymology: < grass n.1 + hopper n.1, perhaps as a remodelling of earlier grasshop n.Sense 2a was almost certainly the original meaning. Compare early modern Dutch grashopper (1588 in Kiliaan), German Grashüpfer (16th cent.), Old Swedish gräshoppare , all in the same meaning. In sense 11a rhyming slang for copper n.4 In sense 11b probably rhyming slang for shopper n. (compare shopper n. 2); earlier currency in this sense is probably implied by grass n.1 12a. In sense 12 humorously after grass n.1 13.
†I. As a name for the hare.
1. An alleged name for: the hare. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Lepus (hares) > lepus europaeus (hare)
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dew-hopper-
?a1300 Names Hare (Digby 86) in Proc. Leeds Philos. & Lit. Soc. (1935) 6 350 Þe gras-hoppere.
II. The insect, and derived senses.
2.
a. Any of numerous insects of the order Orthoptera, having large heads with chewing mouthparts, hind legs modified for jumping, and antennae of variable length; now spec. of the family Acrididae, members of which are plant eaters and have (in the male) the ability to stridulate by rubbing a hind leg against the adjacent forewing. Also with distinguishing word.Locusts are distinguished from grasshoppers in having a swarming phase, in which the insects change their behaviour to form large swarms.Short-horned grasshoppers (family Acrididae) have relatively short, thickened antennae in comparison to those of bush crickets (family Tettigoniidae), which are commonly referred to as long-horned grasshoppers.long-horned grasshopper, red-legged grasshopper, Rocky Mountain grasshopper, short-horned grasshopper, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Acrididae
grasshopOE
grasshopper1526
hoppergrass1829
acridian1847
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Locustidae > member of (locust)
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c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 24* Salamandre et grisiloun, criket and gressehopper.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. xiv. 625 There is a maner grashoppere þat hatte cicada.
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 572/32 Cicada, a grashoppere.
c1475 MS Sloane 4 in Notes & Queries (1864) 2 July 4 Also a greshopper is good, for dyuers fysshes must haue diuers baytys.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKKiiiv They be blessed & happy, that wyll apply & dispose themselfe with the greshopper to lepe vp, as hye as they may.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Oct. 11 Such pleasaunce makes the Grashopper so poore.
1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xii. 5 The grashopper shall be a burden.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccxvii. 189 An Ant and a Grasshopper.
1727 J. Thomson Summer 32 Scarce a chirping Grashopper is heard Thro' all the mead.
1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. IV. ii. 59 The great green locust or grasshopper, is near two inches in length, and about the thickness of a man's little finger.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 166 My uncle..bolted through the window, as nimble as a gras-hopper.
1804 Times 7 Sept. At Amberieux..a reward of 5 centimes is offered for every pound of grasshoppers.
1873 A. S. Packard Direct. Collecting & Preserving Insects (Smithsonian Misc. Coll. No. 261) 23 Orthoptera (Grasshoppers) have free mouth parts, and the organs of nutrition very highly developed.
1882 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 230 The principal breeding grounds of that formidable pest, the locust or grass-hopper, known to entomologists as Caloptenus spretus.
1937 L. I. Wilder On Banks of Plum Creek xxv. 145 Day after day the grasshoppers kept on eating. They ate all the wheat and the oats. They ate every green thing.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses viii. 157 The family is divided into a number of subfamilies, such as..the banded-winged grasshoppers (Oedipodinae), in which the hind wings are usually banded with white yellow, or red; the slant-faced grasshoppers (Acridinae), in which the face meets the vertex at an acute angle.
1995 M. Swander Out of this World iii. 163 A locust is just a grasshopper gone rogue.
2016 BBC Wildlife Aug. 9/2 As summer wears on, the chirping and buzzing of grasshoppers and bush-crickets become more obvious.
b. Angling. A floating artificial bait or fly intended to imitate or thought to resemble a grasshopper; (sometimes also) a sinking lure consisting of a hook having on the shank a pear-shaped piece of lead with green wool or worsted wrapped around it and a piece of straw fastened to each side. Also: a live or dead grasshopper used as bait.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > artificial bait
minnow1655
grasshopper1676
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1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler viii. 76 A green Grashopper, the dubbing of green and yellow Wool mixed, rib'd over with green Silk, and a red Capons feather over all.
?1758 R. Bowlker Art of Angling Improved 37 He [sc. the Chub] is to be caught in the hot Months at bottom with Cow's brains, Lob Worms, Grasshoppers and Cod-baits.
1779 J. Woodforde Diary 9 July (1981) I. 255 I caught 3 Trout..which I caught with two Grasshoppers and a small hook.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling viii. 263 The grasshopper, so-called,..though actually an artificial bait, in no wise resembles a grasshopper.
1889 ‘J. Bickerdyke’ Bk. All-round Angler (new ed.) iii. 99 The ‘grasshopper’ is cast in likely spots and worked with a sink-and-draw motion near the bottom.
1955 Pennsylvania Game News July 6/2 It didn't take grandfather long to show me how to lay on my belly and drop a hooked grasshopper at the edge of the bank.
2010 K. Deeter & C. Meyers Little Red Bk. Fly Fishing ii. 45 Twitch a grasshopper near a cutbank.
3. depreciative. A person likened to a grasshopper, esp. in being destructive, inconstant, or (with allusion to the fable of the ant and the grasshopper) improvidently frivolous. Also as a more general term of derision or reproach.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
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Nimrod1933
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poot1935
shmegegge1937
motheree1938
motorcycle1938
squiff1939
pendejo1940
snotnose1941
jerkface1942
slag1943
yuck1943
fuckface?1945
fuckhead?1945
shit-head1945
shite-hawk1948
schlub1950
asswipe1953
mother1955
weenie1956
hard-on1958
rass hole1959
schmucko1959
bitch ass1961
effer1961
lamer1961
arsewipe1962
asshole1962
butthole1962
cock1962
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motherfuck1964
dork1965
bumhole1967
mofo1967
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crudball1968
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douche1968
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schlong1968
fuckwit1969
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ass1970
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butt-fucker1972
slimeball1972
bloodclaat1973
fuckwad1974
mutha1974
suck1974
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1556 R. Pownoll tr. P. Du Val Litell Dialogue off Consolator sig. Aijv Amongest whom on the one syde are thosse great and ferefull giantes with theire rable of grevous greshoppers, to wytt, the Pope, his Cardenales, Archebishopes, Byshoppes, [etc.].
1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) xxxix. f. 114 The Pope..defendyng them [sc. errors], by his vngratious Grashoppers that eate vp all thynges.
1608 Bp. T. Morton Preamble Incounter 15 I Doe not meane to bring in, as tokens heereof, his disgracefull and reuiling termes, calling mee Asse, Silly grashopper, Lewd lad.
1677 E. Ravenscroft Scaramouch i. i. 3 How you Grasshopper, you Skip Jack, you Hop-my-Thum.
1788 F. Burney Diary 13 Feb. (1842) IV. 74 In two minutes more he will be somewhere else, skipping backwards and forwards; what a grasshopper it is!
1860 M. Roberts Mademoiselle Mori (1862) II. xiv. 208 I have no time to listen to your chattering, you grasshopper! Is your master come in?
1892 R. Ross Deformed Transformed i. xi. 20 What, you peewit, you weazle, you grasshopper, have you not shut the shutters!
1968 Listener 27 June 827/3 My natural inclination was to watch the screen for a moment, then look away, then look back again. This..turned out to be the way I watched not just the news but all television. I was the grasshopper viewer.
2005 J. Manning My Lady Scandalous 8 Woe to those of her sisters who'd eschewed this basic and important consideration for their future, those silly, flighty grasshoppers who thought life would be one endless summer!
4. sea grasshopper n. now rare either of two marine crustaceans, the mantis shrimp Squilla mantis and the slipper lobster Scyllarus arctus; cf. sea-locust n. at sea n. Compounds 6d.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Stomatopoda > member of family Squillidae
squilla1658
sea grasshopper1668
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mantis crab1850
locust shrimp1867
mantis shrimp1871
mantid1941
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 175 Squillæ..Mantis..the Sea-Grashopper.
1728 T. Cooke Notes to Wks. & Days in tr. Hesiod Wks. I. 201 There was likewise a Sea-grasshopper, if we are to call it so, of the Bigness of a small Crab, or Cray-fish, which made some Noise when ever it was taken.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 162 Gen. 47. Scyllarus... These animals are popularly known by the name of Sea-Grasshoppers.
1958 tr. A. Gide Amyntas 87 Sea-grasshopper, Sir...because of the shape of the head; just look at the profile. One would swear it was a grasshopper's head.
1980 W. Root Food 451/2 The sea grasshopper, as the Italians call the mantis prawn,..looks like a fat shrimp with an eye on its tail.
5. In the action (action n. 19d) of a piano: (a name for) a spring-loaded piece which raises and then slips past the lever which sets the hammer in motion, allowing the hammer to fall back before the key is released; = hopper n.1 9. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > hopper
grasshopper1807
hopper1840
Jack1896
1807 W. Southwell Brit. Patent 3029 2 The end of the grasshopper hath pressed up the connecting rod l, h, which, by its pressure on the tail of the hammer, hath caused it to give the stroke.
1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 4th Ser. 160 To give the technical terms applied to all these little pieces would be of no use; for after saying that the key acts on the grasshopper..we have done but little towards explaining the particular construction and action of each.
1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 619/2 There is a regulating screw perforating the jack, tongue, or fly, as it is variously called, of the grasshopper, drilled into the backpiece.
1982 E. M. Good Giraffes, Black Dragons, & Other Pianos iv. 99 Astor's square has an action we have not seen before. The mechanism came to be called the grasshopper action after the jack, or hopper (short for grasshopper) as the English called it.
2006 N. Bachus Romantic Piano ii. 78 The single escapement (sometimes nicknamed the ‘grasshopper’) allows the hammer to fall away from the string while the key is still depressed.
†6. U.S. An open two-wheeled carriage of a type that is lighter than other such carriages. More fully grasshopper-chaise whisky. Obsolete. rare.
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1878 E. M. Stratton World on Wheels ix. 348 The grasshopper-chaise whisky is represented in the next engraving.
1889 A. E. T. Watson in Duke of Beaufort et al. Driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) ii. 42 The ‘caned whisky’ had cane-work sides, and the ‘grasshopper’ was made as light as was, or as seemed, compatible with safety.
7. colloquial. A reciprocating pump for drawing up liquid (esp. oil) from below ground; = pump jack n. at pump v. Compounds 2. More fully grasshopper pump.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pump > [noun] > other types of pump
bottom lift1778
rose pump1778
centrifugal pump1789
jack-heada1792
jet pump1850
sand-pump1865
Union pump1867
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eductor1877
brake-pump1881
bull-pump1881
cam-pumpa1884
sand-reel1883
grasshopper1884
knapsack pump1894
knapsack sprayer1897
turbo-pump1903
Sylphon1906
slush pump1913
displacement pump1924
power pack1937
proportioner1945
solids pump1957
peristaltic pump1958
powerhead1981
Cornish pump-
1884 Illustr. Catal. Oil & Artesian Well Supplies (Oil Well Supply Co. Ltd., Bradford and Oil City, Pa.) 150 (caption) Pivot centre irons for ‘grasshopper’.
1954 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 24 Sept. (U.S. Mining Bureau Suppl.) (caption) Grasshopper pump producing oil from Shell Oil Co. Eagle Springs Well No. 1.
2017 J. R. Fanchi & R. L. Christiansen Introd. Petroleum Engin. x. 202 The rocking motion of a pump jack (also known as horsehead, nodding donkey, grasshopper, etc.) is often encountered in oil country.
8. Clockmaking. = grasshopper escapement n. at Compounds 2a. Now historical and rare.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
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Jack1498
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Jack of the clockhouse1563
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work1570
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scape1798
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pin tooth1817
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pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
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1899 F. J. Britten Old Clocks & Watches 216 John Harrison..devised a peculiar form of recoil escapement..generally called the ‘grass-hopper’.
1984 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Apr. 359/4 He has a sound knowledge of the craft and mechanisms of the later period: detents, cylinders, rack levers and grasshoppers.
9. U.S. Military slang. (A name for) a small, lightweight aeroplane of a type used chiefly by the army for observation or liaison. Now historical.In quot. 1933 in attributive use referring to a light aeroplane fitted with an auxiliary second pair of wheels, in addition to the undercarriage, which descend as the aeroplane is taking off in order to push it upwards into the air.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > aircraft for other specific uses
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ambulance airplane1918
ambulance plane1918
air ambulance1920
firebomber1938
crop-duster1939
grasshopper1939
water bomber1956
weather plane1962
bird dog1965
1933 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. (heading) 18 Grasshopper plane jumps into the air.]
1939 Pop. Aviation May 31/2 Any reader will possibly think that any one flying a ‘grasshopper’ has to be crazy and not too anxious to remain on this green earth.
1952 A. Geer New Breed ii. 13 Two days later Valentine was back flying his ‘grasshopper’ armed with ‘twin thirty-eights’—thirty-eight caliber pistols he and his observer carried.
1965 Flying Sept. 34/1 Grasshoppers weren't Piper's principal contribution to the war effort.
2004 B. Green Okinawa Odyssey v. 99 A bunch of our little artillery observation planes, which we called ‘grasshoppers’, had already flown off a carrier and landed here.
10. A cocktail of a green colour (the colour of certain species of grasshopper), made with crème de menthe, crème de cacao, and cream. Also more fully grasshopper cocktail.Although the cocktail was reputedly created by Philip Guichet at Tujague's restaurant in New Orleans in 1919, firm evidence of this is lacking. The grasshopper was especially popular in the United States in the 1950s.In earliest use green grasshopper cocktail (see quot. 1949).
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cocktail > [noun] > other cocktails
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twist1699
Coke-upon-Littleton1740
julep1787
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mint julep1809
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sour1862
Collins1865
John Collins1865
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Picon punch1900
stinger1901
Bronx1906
Jack Rose1912
Pimm's1912
orange blossom1919
Americano1928
Merry Widow1930
snowball1930
atomic cocktail1941
Sazarac cocktail1941
grasshopper1949
Bellini1955
saketini1959
wallbanger1970
caipirinha1973
Long Island ice tea1978
Alabama slammer1980
Long Island iced tea1981
1949 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 19 Mar. 5/4 Grand Avenue's Shanghai Low has quite a run on those Green Grasshopper cocktails (made from creme de menthe) on St. Patricks Day.
1950 N.Y. Herald Tribune 28 Mar. 24/6 Grasshopper Cocktail Flies In, With Appeal for Eye and Palate... Last week we met a new kind of grasshopper, a city slicker of lovely soft green color... The cocktail is made of one-third Bols white cacao, one-third Bols green creme de menthe and one-third light cream in a quick shake with shaved ice.
1976 M. Atwood Lady Oracle xxi. 225 I wanted a double Scotch, but I didn't want to be thought unladylike... So I ordered a Grasshopper.
2017 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 14 July (Timeout section) Grasshoppers, Brandy Alexanders, Pink Squirrels and other sippers evoke old-school mixology.
III. Slang senses relating to people.
11. British slang (chiefly Criminals' slang). Now somewhat rare.
a. A police officer; = copper n.4 Cf. grass n.1 12b.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman
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Bow-street officer1812
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robin redbreast1824
bulky1828
raw (or unboiled) lobster1829
Johnny Darm1830
polis1833
crusher1835
constable1839
police1839
agent1841
johndarm1843
blue boy1844
bobby1844
bluebottle1845
copper1846
blue1848
polisman1850
blue coat1851
Johnny1851
PC1851
spot1851
Jack1854
truncheonist1854
fly1857
greycoat1857
cop1859
Cossack1859
slop1859
scuffer1860
nailerc1863
worm1864
Robert1870
reeler1879
minion of the law1882
ginger pop1887
rozzer1888
nark1890
bull1893
grasshopper1893
truncheon-bearer1896
John1898
finger1899
flatty1899
mug1903
John Dunn1904
John Hop1905
gendarme1906
Johnny Hop1908
pavement pounder1908
buttons1911
flat-foot1913
pounder1919
Hop1923
bogy1925
shamus1925
heat1928
fuzz1929
law1929
narker1932
roach1932
jonnop1938
grass1939
roller1940
Babylon1943
walloper1945
cozzer1950
Old Bill1958
cowboy1959
monaych1961
cozzpot1962
policeperson1965
woolly1965
Fed1966
wolly1970
plod1971
roz1971
Smokey Bear1974
bear1975
beast1978
woodentop1981
Five-O1983
dibble1990
Bow-street runner-
1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 196/2 Grasshopper, (rhyming) a policeman, or copper.
1907 Daily Chron. 1 Apr. 4/4 The criminal classes always speak of policemen as ‘grasshoppers’.
1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? xv. 222 A policeman is the usual cockney ‘Grass’ (copper, grass-hopper).
2003 W. Woodruff Beyond Nab End ii. 29 Whenever a ‘grasshopper’ (a policeman) went past my window, the odds were he was on his way to the Nicholls.
b. A police informer. Cf. grass n.1 12a, grasser n.2
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society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer > police informer
setter1630
nose1789
mouchard1802
rat1818
stool-pigeon1830
knark1851
police informer1851
nark1859
telegraph1864
copper1885
sarbut1897
Noah's Ark1898
stool1906
snout1910
finger1914
policeman1923
stoolie1924
shelf1926
grass1929
grasshopper1937
grasser1950
stukach1969
supergrass1975
1937 J. L. Phelan Museum xxiii. 217 Never heard him say a grasshopper got him fourteen, did you?
1955 P. Wildeblood Against Law 105 ‘What are grasses?’ I asked. ‘Informers. Short for “grasshoppers”, which is rhyming slang for “shoppers”, meaning people who go to the cop-shop and squeal on their friends.’
1956 B. Behan Quare Fellow ii. 36 I've never been a grasshopper or a nark for the screws anyway.
1982 G. Newbold Big Huey vi. 73 Anybody who went to the screws..was labelled a nark, a grasshopper, or a policeman.
12. U.S. slang. A person who smokes marijuana, esp. habitually; a marijuana user or addict. Cf. grass n.1 13.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > drug-user > user of marijuana
muggle-head1926
tea man1938
weedhead1939
reefer1940
tea-head1953
grasshopper1954
pothead1957
pot smoker1965
stoner1971
toker1975
1954 D. W. Maurer & V. H. Vogel Narcotics & Narcotic Addiction Gloss. 273/2 Grasshopper, a marihuana addict.
1971 S. Stevens Way Uptown in Another World x. 131 I dig the weed. I been a grasshopper a long time now.
1979 A. Pepper & L. Pepper Straight Life viii. 142 They're grasshoppers, busted for pot.
2001 J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand xlvi. 242 ‘Bob Mitchum?’ ‘Grasshopper.’

Compounds

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a. General attributive, as grasshopper egg, grasshopper infestation, etc.
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1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 146 The next Tribe of Insects which I shall take notice of, is the Locust or Grasshopper Kind.
1782 J. Elphinston tr. Martial Epigrams vi. lxv. 309 Thy grasshopper-breast, on a spindle As fine as an antling's, can stand.
1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) II. 182 The Grasshopper species are not yet hatched.
1874 Prairie Farmer 17 Oct. 329/6 I saw a letter, the writer asking for information as to whether grasshopper eggs would hatch out in the spring and destroy our crops another year.
1913 Kansas Farmer 25 Oct. 14/2 The grasshopper population of Western Kansas is ‘shy’ this fall.
1970 Washington Post 16 Sept. a24/2 Gastronomically speaking, grasshopper legs are bad news.
1985 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 12 July Last year, Manitoba farmers claimed $750,000 in crop insurance as a result of grasshopper damage.
2016 Denver Post (Nexis) 31 Aug. 2 c Grasshopper infestations defoliated some of the apple trees.
b. Objective, as grasshopper-destroyer, grasshopper hunting, etc.; grasshopper-eating, grasshopper-killing, etc., adjs.
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1784 Ld. Monboddo Antient Metaphysics III. ii. xii. 264 A nation that he calls..Grasshopper-Eaters, whom he describes exactly as Sir Francis Drake has described them.
1879 Bull. Nuttall Ornithol. Club 4 111 The grasshopper-eating habits of the Red-headed Woodpecker.
1902 Rural New-Yorker 26 July 517/2 Last week reference was made to a western scheme for creating interest in grasshopper killing.
1915 Proc. Entomol. Soc. Brit. Columbia July ii. 44 This bird [sc. the Desert Sparrow-hawk] ranks very high as a grasshopper-destroyer and is abundant everywhere during the summer.
1960 N. Smiley Trop. Planting & Gardening for S. Florida & W. Indies xvii. 187 A grasshopper-killing insecticide should be applied..whenever these pests appear in very large numbers.
1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 13 July (Final ed.) a14 A lengthy drought, which killed off grasshopper-eating insects and animals.
1985 Audubon Jan. 81/3 Grasshopper hunting seems to combine pursuit of food with fun and games. The roadrunner stirs the grasshoppers into flight, then leaps wildly to snatch them from mid-air.
2004 C. Savage Prairie viii. 231 The ground was strewn with sleek gray-and-white flight feathers, presumably shed by one or another species of grasshopper-hunting songbirds.
c. Instrumental, as grasshopper-eaten, grasshopper-infested, etc., adjs.
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1874 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 13 July 2/6 News received Saturday at St. Paul, Minn., from the grasshopper-infested region, gives the gratifying intelligence that the pests are generally on the wing, moving southward under the impetus of a north wind.
1874 Cultivator & Country Gentleman 5 Nov. 716/3 Late advices from the grasshopper-ravaged districts of southwestern Nebraska state that the full extent of the misery in the barren country has not yet been told.
1919 Agric. Exper. Station (Kansas State Agric. Coll.) No. 73. 8 It is good farm practice to seed grasshopper eaten borders, washed out ravines, and patches which have drowned out, to Sudan grass.
1939 J. R. Parker Grasshoppers & their Control (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1828) 30 Grasshopper-infested stubble land which is to be summer-fallowed should be plowed before the eggs hatch.
1954 Macdonald Farm Jrnl. June 14/1 There should be little fear that modern agricultural chemicals are a threat to Canadian wildlife. Dead forests and grasshopper-devastated prairies are infinitely more dangerous.
2015 T. L. Marzell Chalkboard Heroes vi. 87 For months she trudged around the most isolated, drought-ravaged, grasshopper-plagued portions of the state.
C2.
a.
grasshopper-beam n. now historical and rare (in a beam engine) a beam which is pivoted at one end, rather than at its centre; cf. grasshopper engine n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > levers
working beam1744
beam1759
lever1759
side lever1804
lever-beam1824
walking beam1824
sway-beam1839
grasshopper-beam?1865
?1865 Z. Colburn in Z. Colburn et al. Locomotive Engin. (1871) ii. 43/2 The cylinders were placed vertically, and ‘grasshopper’ beams and spur gearing were employed..to communicate the motion to the wheels.
1929 Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner 12 Aug. 6/3 Some [parts] were rescued and deposited in the Smithsonian institution, including the boiler, a cylinder, a ‘grasshopper beam’, and the wheel rims.
2004 J. L. Shagena Who really invented Steamboat? viii. 223 (caption) Evans's high-pressure, noncondensing steam engine with an overhead grasshopper beam.
grasshopper eater n. an animal or person that eats grasshoppers (cf. Grasshopper Indian n.).
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1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects i. xxxi. 202 It is to bee observed, that all Grashopper-eaters are of a short life.
1785 Lounger (1787) No. 15. 136 I have been at all possible pains to discover..whether any traces still remain of that species of men of whom your learned countryman has taken notice..called the Ακριδοϕαγοι, Grasshopper-eaters, or, as I incline to render the word, Locust-eaters; but hitherto my inquiries have met with no degree of success.
1900 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 14 Apr. 435/1 The grasshopper eaters were met with in the mountains [in the Philippines], and quantities of the grasshoppers were seen distributed over mats on the sunny side of hills, in the process of drying out.
1957 Geogr. Mag. Nov. 289/1 Such birds as crow-shrikes, which are largely grasshopper-eaters, have prospered with the increase in pasture.
1998 M. Blakely Comanche Dawn (1999) xlviii. 382 Those Grasshopper eaters will not have women to make their lodges or their pole-drags... No father wants his daughter to marry a Grasshopper Eater.
grasshopper engine n. now historical and rare. a beam engine (beam-engine n. at beam n.1 Compounds 2) in which the beam is pivoted at one end, rather than at its centre; a half-beam engine.
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1853 P. P. Kennedy Blackwater Chron. v. 60 Like one of the old grasshopper engines on the railroad.
1913 Lit. Digest 23 Aug. 279 (caption) Latest type of steam passenger engine. Its long low lines..afford a striking contrast to the ‘grasshopper’ engine of which it is a descendant.
2011 Caribbean Stud. 39 246 Were these alternatives considered by the engineers who ended up buying the grasshopper engines?
grasshopper escapement n. Clockmaking (now historical and rare) a type of recoil escapement (see recoil n. Compounds 3) in which the arms bearing the pallets are hinged in the middle and arranged in a way thought to resemble the legs of a grasshopper.Grasshopper escapements require no lubrication, since their action generates much less friction than many other kinds of escapement.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
nut1428
peise1428
plumbc1450
Jack1498
clockwork1516
larum1542
Jack of the clockhouse1563
watch-wheel1568
work1570
plummeta1578
Jack of the clock1581
snail-cam1591
snail-work1591
pointer1596
quarter jack1604
mainspring1605
winder1606
notch-wheel1611
fusee1622
count-wheel1647
jack-wheel1647
frame1658
arbor1659
balance1660
fuse1674
hour-figure1675
stop1675
pallet1676
regulator1676
cock1678
movement1678
detent1688
savage1690
clock1696
pinwheel1696
starred wheel1696
swing-wheel1696
warning-wheel1696
watch1696
watch-part1696
hoop-wheel1704
hour-wheel1704
snail1714
step-wheel1714
tide-work1739
train1751
crutch1753
cannon pinion1764
rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
cannon1802
hammer-tail1805
recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
1899 F. J. Britten Old Clocks & Watches 487/2 The long-case clock by John Harrison, with grasshopper escapement..now belongs to..Mr. W. W. Nicholson.
1973 A. Bird Eng. House Clocks: 1600–1850 ix. 168 The ‘grasshopper’ escapement..was theoretically inferior to the dead-beat, as it required a fairly wide angle of swing..and had to rely upon recoil to perform the unlocking.
2014 T. Buick Orrery iv. 176 The Grasshopper escapement is famous because it was the invention of John Harrison, who solved the problem of longitude determination and incorporated the mechanism into the first marine chronometer.
grasshopper green adj. and n. (a) n. a bright green colour resembling that of a grasshopper; (b) adj. of a bright green colour resembling that of a grasshopper.
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1837 M. Boddington Sketches in Pyrenees I. iii. 34 She never changed her bonnet; it was a capote of bright, tender, grasshopper green.
1864 D. Costello Mr. Grimshaw's Little Love-affair xxix, in Bentley's Misc. Jan. 271 A round jacket, not of the strictly orthodox flannel, but, for more variety, of grasshopper-green corduroy, with mother-of-pearl buttons.
1891 Cassell's Family Mag. 755/2 The new colour of the year is grasshopper green, vivid but pure.
1957 New Yorker 17 Aug. 7/1 (advt.) Mr. Wragge suggests the shirt in woodbrook brown with rock grey skirt or grasshopper green shirt with graphite grey skirt.
1988 Response Spring–Summer 130 Poland is grasshopper green On my globe.
2016 N. Cutter Little Heaven (2017) xi. 71 ‘The Safeway has Granny Smith apples. I never seen a green like them. Different than grass green or leaf green or...’ ‘Or grasshopper green?’
† Grasshopper Indian n. U.S. Obsolete (a name for) a member of the Ute, a North American Indian people living chiefly in Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico (see Ute n.1 a).Arising from the Ute people's use of grasshoppers as food.
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1831 J. O. Pattie Personal Narr. Exped. from St. Louis 100 Here we met a band of the Grasshopper Indians, who derive their name from gathering grasshoppers, drying them, and pulverizing them.
† grasshopper march n. Obsolete a gymnastic exercise performed on the parallel bars by using the arms to spring backwards and forwards in a manner reminiscent of a grasshopper.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > specific exercises
breathing1605
breather1802
arm swing1859
setting-up drill1862
grasshopper march1884
lunge1889
push-up1897
sit-up1900
pull-up1901
deep-breathing1904
bag-punching1927
press-up1928
setting-up exercise1935
pullover1936
bear crawl1937
burpee1939
knee-bend1941
leg raise1944
dip1945
uddiyana1949
squat thrust1950
lateral1954
pull-down1956
aquacise1968
step-up1973
abdominal crunch1981
power walking1982
crunch1983
gut-buster1983
stomach crunch1986
1884 Brit. Standard Handbks. Sports & Pastimes II. iv. v. 23 The grasshopper march. Jump along the bars backwards and forwards, with both arms. The arms of course must be bent a little to give the necessary spring.
grasshopper pie n. chiefly U.S. (a) a pie or dish made with grasshoppers; spec. crushed grasshoppers and berries formed into a cake, eaten by certain American Indian people (see Grasshopper Indian n.) (now historical); (b) a chilled dessert inspired by the grasshopper cocktail (see sense 10), with a base and sides formed from crushed chocolate biscuits and a filling made with crème de menthe, crème de cacao, melted marshmallows, and whipped cream.
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1856 Indianapolis (Indiana) Daily State Sentinel 21 July Fremont kept himself in tolerable condition for days together on ‘mule soup’ and ‘grasshopper pie’.
1872 R. G. McClellan Golden State iii. 54 He relapsed into his native bestiality, forsook the cornfield and the loom, and returned to..roam upon arid plains to fatten upon acorns and grasshopper pie.
1901 Sci. Amer. 19 Jan. 35/2 The housewife of the Philippines takes considerable delight in placing before you a nice grasshopper pie... Care is taken to keep the grasshoppers intact.
1960 Syracuse (N.Y.) Post Standard 7 Apr. 10/3 ‘Grasshopper Pie’..combines the delicate rich Cacao flavor with fresh mint..and the richness of cream.
1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 111 Grasshopper fruitcake, a humorous name Western settlers gave to an Indian cake made from berries and crushed grasshoppers; also called grasshopper pie.
2010 N.Y. Mag. 15 Feb. 48/3 The chocolaty grasshopper pie is a proper cough-syrup green.
grasshopper-principle n. now historical and rare a principle of engine design in which the beam of a beam engine is pivoted at one end rather than at its centre; cf. grasshopper engine n.
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1867 Bristol Mercury 16 Nov. 4/1 (advt.) Steamer on sale... She..has Side Lever Engines, on the ‘Grasshopper’ principle.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 100 By the side of the winding engine is the long row of blowing engines, on grasshopper and other principles.
1976 C. A. Sanders & D. C. Gould Hist. Cast in Metal 229 It made the first application of the so-called grasshopper principle to a steam engine.
grasshopper season n. the period of the year when grasshoppers are abundant, typically reaching its peak in late summer.Sometimes with specific reference to the destruction of crops by grasshoppers in such a period; cf. grasshopper year n.
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1847 Vermont Chron. 29 Sept. 155/3 He had observed for several ‘Grasshopper seasons’, quite a prevailing disease among sheep, and that this disease was termed the ‘scald-mouth’.
1881 A. A. Hayes New Colorado i. 21 There was hardly any farming in the early times; there were terrible grasshopper seasons before 1876.
1961 Ecology 42 93/1 The grasshopper season is shorter in the marshes (3 as compared to 6 months).
2018 Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania) (Nexis) 10 Mar. 3 The Grasshopper Carnival..traditionally marked the arrival of the grasshopper season and the insect's use as fishing bait.
grasshopper-spring n. now historical and rare (in a carriage or cart) a spring consisting of a set of flexible curved plates mounted below a rigid horizontal bar with curved ends, the ends of each being connected by shackles.
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1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 89 Named according to their shape..the S, the C, the..grasshopper spring.
1822 Monthly Mag. Oct. Modern coaches, constructed of one piece, and resting on what are called grasshopper springs.
1966 M. H. Wiggin Hist. Barrington, N.H. 66 The body was over the hind axle, where it hung on grasshopper springs.
grasshopper year n. North American (now chiefly historical) a year in which all or most of the crops are destroyed by grasshoppers.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > harvest > bad harvest/crop failure
grasshopper year1840
1840 New Eng. Farmer 26 Aug. 60/1 By the way, 'tis just fourteen years since the last great ‘grasshopper year’.
1880 Scribner's Monthly July 458/1 Then came 1875 and 1876, which were ‘grasshopper years’ when no crops of consequence were raised in the whole state.
1955 R. Kroetsch in Maclean's 30 Apr. 49/1 We might flood out or dry out or freeze out. How do I know?.. What if it's a grasshopper year?
2016 E. Vetsch His Prairie Sweetheart iv. 63 Here's the farm. Pa homesteaded it right after the war. He held on through the grasshopper years, and now it's doing pretty well.
b. In the names of birds and other animals typically having a call thought to resemble the stridulation of a grasshopper.
grasshopper lark n. now rare (chiefly historical) = grasshopper warbler n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Locustella (grasshopper-warbler)
grasshopper lark1766
grasshopper warbler1790
Savi's warbler1843
reel-bird1856
reeler1866
Pallas's warbler1881
mowing-machine bird1887
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Acrocephalus > other types of
grasshopper lark1766
bristle-bird1827
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 95 The Grasshopper Lark.
1768 G. White Let. 18 Apr. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 45 The grasshopper-lark began his sibilous note in my fields last Saturday.
1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 514 The..little grasshopper lark..runs whispering within the hedgerows.
2004 North Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 17 June 48 Country names for the grasshopper warbler include Cricket Bird, Reeler and Grasshopper Lark, from its reeling call.
grasshopper mouse n. any of several North American mice of the genus Onychomys, which live in burrows and feed largely on arthropods and other mice; also with distinguishing word.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > other types of mouse or rat
rock rat1781
Otomys1834
rabbit rat1837
deer-mouse1840
bamboo rat1881
muskrat1884
sigmodont1884
grasshopper mouse1888
veld rat1905
striped mouse1932
Sprague-Dawley1951
1888 Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1887 427 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (49th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 201) XXVIII Throughout the trip you will make a special study of the habits of the peculiar insectivorous Mouse, known as the Missouri Grasshopper Mouse (Hesperomys leucogaster).
1904 W. T. Hornaday Amer. Nat. Hist. vii. 91/1 The Grasshopper Mouse..strongly resembles the white-footed mouse.
1982 R. L. Smith Venomous Animals Arizona 4 Scorpions in Arizona are preyed upon by grasshopper mice (Onychomys spp.), other rodents, birds, and reptiles.
2001 Smithsonian Dec. 74/3 She tells how grasshopper mice ‘howl’ in the desert like tiny wolves.
grasshopper sparrow n. North American a small North American sparrow, Ammodramus savannarum (family Passerellidae), having a song thought to resemble the stridulation of a grasshopper.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [noun] > subfamily Ploceinae (weaver) > other or unspecified types of
mountain spink1611
ring sparrow1678
oxbird1738
fody1792
mountain finch1800
fox-sparrow1869
grasshopper sparrow1883
quelea1930
1883 E. Coues & D. W. Prentiss Avifauna Columbiana (ed. 2) in Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 26 60 Coturniculus passerinus..Grasshopper Sparrow..its song a singular chirruping, like the stridulation of some insect.
1930 Manitoba Free Press 12 July 25 The small colony of the rare Grasshopper Sparrow..has apparently moved north across the railway track.
2011 Condor 113 731/2 Cattle grazing often produces patches of bare ground that some birds, such as the Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum)..need for foraging.
grasshopper warbler n. a small Eurasian warbler having a prolonged, buzzing call, Locustella naevia (family Locustellidae); = grasshopper lark n.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Sylviidae (warbler) > [noun] > genus Locustella (grasshopper-warbler)
grasshopper lark1766
grasshopper warbler1790
Savi's warbler1843
reel-bird1856
reeler1866
Pallas's warbler1881
mowing-machine bird1887
1790 J. Latham Index Ornithol. II. 516 [Sylvia] Locustella... Grasshopper Warbler.
1839 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds I. 263 The Grasshopper Warbler is found within a few miles north of London, and also in Surrey.
1960 Times 20 May 16/5 The trilling of the grasshopper warbler is much more like the continuous whirring of an insect than it is like the song of a bird.
2012 National Trust Mag. Autumn 11/1 We've been delighted to discover healthy populations of many species that are threatened in the UK,..including grasshopper warblers.

Derivatives

ˈgrasshoppered adj. U.S. (now somewhat rare and chiefly historical) (of a crop) destroyed by grasshoppers; (of a farmer, region, etc.) affected by such destruction; cf. grasshopper v. 3.
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1874 Algona (Iowa) Republican 1 Apr. Mr R. made his visit during the latter part of February, making a tour through the grasshoppered section and attending in person to distributing the supplies.
1875 Monthly Rep. Dept. Agric. July 279 Hundreds of acres of grasshoppered corn being replanted.
1911 Amer. Bee Jrnl. Jan. 15/3 Grasshoppered alfalfa hay will not be eaten by cattle or horses if they can get anything else.
1914 J. L. E. Peck et al. Past & Present of O'Brien & Osceola Counties, Iowa I. ii. 58 The pitiful appeals of the ‘grasshoppered’ homesteaders for credit and groceries and clothing became too strong.
1950 G. S. Reeves Man from S. Dakota xix. 248 ‘You've got to deed your land to the government. To hell with that noise.’ I looked at his hundred and sixty acres of grasshoppered rockpile and thought privately, why not?
ˈgrasshopperish adj. reminiscent of or resembling a grasshopper; grasshopper-like.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [adjective] > hemimetabolous > belonging to Orthoptera > of or relating to family Acrididae > of or relating to member of > resembling grasshopper
grasshopperish1881
1881 Puck (N.Y.) 4 May 149/1 This week she is giving us ‘la Cigale’, which piece is, as the name implies, exceedingly grasshopperish.
1897 Outing Oct. 71/1 Toy monkeys on sticks, who were ever climbing upward in their quick, grasshopperish jumps.
1935 New Yorker 10 Aug. 47/1 Small grasshopperish things fly hither and yon.
2001 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 24 Mar. (Books section) 16 In grasshopperish tones, [Bruce] Lee describes his martial art philosophy of Jeet Kune Do, repeating his basic formula with seemingly endless metaphors.
ˈgrasshopper-like adv. and adj. (a) adv. in the manner of a grasshopper (rare); (b) adj. reminiscent of or resembling a grasshopper; like that of a grasshopper.In quot. 1615, with allusion to the fable of the ant and the grasshopper: spec. frivolously, without planning or preparing or the future.
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1615 A. Niccholes Disc. Marriage & Wiving iii. 7 Winter sure shall be full of want, full of discontent, that thus grashopper-like respected their Summer.
1641 E. Woodward Light to Gram. Pref. sig. a8 I follow Nature all along, keeping pace with her, which is constant, not Grashopper-like, hopping, and leaping, now up, then downe againe presently.
1768 G. White Let. 17 Aug. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 55 This last [sort of willow-wren]..makes a sibilous grasshopper-like noise.
1882 Harper's Mag. June 18/2 When he hauls it in, it contains many strange creatures besides the frisky, grasshopper-like decapod crustacean for which he is seeking.
1923 A. E. Coppard Black Dog 236 Huxley Rustem settled himself patiently upon the hairdresser's waiting bench to probe the speculation that jumped grasshopper-like into the field of his inquisitorial mind: Why does a man become a barber?
2018 New Yorker (Nexis) 5 Feb. 42 Drones..with a more insectoid appearance, a more grasshopper-like profile.
ˈgrasshoppery adj. reminiscent of or resembling a grasshopper, grasshopper-like; (also) full of, or characterized by an abundance of, grasshoppers.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > hoarse or husky
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throaty1647
furred1666
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cracked1739
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gruffish1812
gin and fog1842
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tonsilly1894
wine-tasting1936
gravelly1944
gravelled1958
1849 Acton 132 The diet of a famished race, Grasshoppery formed with a sharpened face.
1852 Duffy's Fireside Mag. May 212/2 The grasshoppery chirp of the merry ringing rivulet.
1905 Condor 7 11 The whole band [of ravens]..started off east on a bee-line, doubtless with intent to visit either the almond orchards or grasshoppery fields of Antelope Valley.
1926 Brit. Weekly 2 Sept. 456/4 She announces the result in her little grasshoppery voice.
1953 E. W. Teale Circle of Seasons 188 The heat of the day, a sunny, grasshoppery day, presses down on the clearing.
2008 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 5 Dec. 8 e It's a scene of compelling action and mystery with crowds of elders nearby, God swirling overhead on a fluffy green powder puff, a grasshoppery Satan lurking in the distance, and gold-plate halos all around.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

grasshopperv.

Brit. /ˈɡrɑːsˌhɒpə/, /ˈɡrasˌhɒpə/, U.S. /ˈɡræsˌ(h)ɑpər/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: grasshopper n.
Etymology: < grasshopper n.With sense 3 compare earlier grasshoppered adj. at grasshopper n. Derivatives. With sense 5 compare earlier grasshoppering n. 1.
1. intransitive. Of an animal: to hunt and eat grasshoppers. rare.
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1855 J. W. T. Let. 20 Mar. in New Eng. Farmer May 230/1 When they [sc. turkeys] have been out grasshoppering awhile, they will not touch corn if thrown to them.
2003 Associated Press State & Local Wire (Nexis) 10 Dec. The birds have trickled down to a low grassy bench, 50 yards northeast of the bales and across the river. They are ‘grasshoppering,’ plucking protein-rich morsels from the ground every few steps.
2. U.S. With preposition or adverb of direction. Cf. grasshoppering n. 3.
a. intransitive. Of a riverboat or (by extension) its crew: to move over an obstruction such as a sandbar or through shallow waters with the aid of poles or spars (see sense 2b). historical in later use.
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1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxxii. 704 In a series of swings and ‘drags’, over half-sunken trees,..we made a final swing off the lower end of the island, and floated on. When they spar thus on both sides, they are said to ‘grasshopper over’.
1950 Waterways June 109/1 Steamboats had their day as the carriers of commerce into the new settlements, ‘grasshoppering’ over sandbars and threading their precarious route along the river's shifting and treacherous channel.
1966 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 4 Dec. 71 (advt.) The fur company boats that ‘grasshoppered’ up the Missouri.
1991 R. S. Wheeler Bitterroot i. 7 Doctor Sitgreaves had watched, fascinated, as its crew grasshoppered over the sandbars by lifting the boat on its own spars until it cleared the underwater obstacle.
2012 J. H. White Wet Britches & Muddy Boots vii. 201 (caption) Notice the spars attached to derricks at the bow. These sturdy wood poles were used for grasshoppering across sand or mud bars on the Upper Missouri River.
b. transitive. To move (a riverboat) over an obstruction such as a sandbar or through shallow waters with the aid of poles or spars, esp. by raising it at the bow on a pair of spars mounted on either side and then driving it forwards. historical in later use.
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1881 Amer. Machinist 25 June 6/2 No boat of any size could possibly be grasshoppered along, as your correspondent suggests.
1909 J. M. Hanson Conquest of Missouri xi. 86 The crew, who had commenced setting spars along the sides for the purpose of ‘grasshoppering’ her over the bar, were driven from their work and forced to take refuge under cover.
1963 E. N. Rolfsrud Story of N. Dakota ii. 76/1 If the best chute proved too shallow for the boat to ascend unaided, the crew lowered huge spars on either side of the bow, and using steam power, ‘grasshoppered’ the boat across the chute.
1982 G. R. R. Martin Fevre Dream v. 53 Her mate and crew were out with spars and winches, trying to grasshopper her over.
2013 W. Johnson River of Dark Dreams iv. 121 Sometimes boats were put in reverse and driven through the bar;..sometimes they were ‘grasshoppered’ over the bar with long levers attached to the sides of the boat.
3. transitive (in passive). U.S. Of a crop: to be destroyed by grasshoppers; (of a farmer, region, etc.) to be affected by such destruction. Cf. grasshoppered adj. at grasshopper n. Derivatives. Now chiefly historical.
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1874 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 12 Oct. 6/3 The whole crop might as well have been grasshoppered, so far as it is of any benefit to the country.
1888 Hist. Andrew & De Kalb Counties, Missouri ii. 140 Andrew County, ‘grasshoppered’ as it had been, was able to respond to the call, and do its full share in feeding the hungry and clothing the poor.
?1902 Proc. Wyoming Industr. Convent. Dec. 11 & 12, 1901 58 Every second year he was grasshoppered, and burnt out with drouth the remaining four out of every seven.
1953 Long Range Farm Program: Hearings before U.S. Congr. House Agric. Comm. (83rd Congr., 1st Sess.) (1954) XI. 1645 Assume he plants another year for a 4,000-bushel yield—he is droughted or hailed or grasshoppered and only raises 2,000 bushels.
2018 W. Fanebust Chasing Frank & Jesse James ii. 20 Many a farmer had been ‘grasshoppered’, some worse than others.
4. With preposition or adverb of direction.
a. intransitive. To jump like a grasshopper.In quot. 1911 as part of an extended metaphor.With quot. 1929 cf. grasshopper march n. at grasshopper n. Compounds 2a.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > like a grasshopper
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1911 G. L. Teeple in Cent. Mag. Oct. 834/2 Those queer insects, grasshoppering with such speed from the edge of the chisel, what manner of new creature might they be?
1929 Amer. Legion Monthly Jan. 9/1 All about men were grasshoppering through the parallel bars, doing the giant swing on the horizontal bar, showing off, each with the best he had in him.
1965 London Mag. Sept. 36 My picture is very Old Russia with Cossacks grasshoppering about.
1966 D. Varaday Gara-Yaka's Domain iii. 32 My cheetah had selected her mark, and..she zoomed towards it. All others were ignored, even one that grass-hoppered directly into her path.
1998 T. C. Johnston Ride Moon Down (1999) x. 160 Kit grasshoppered out of the dirt, sprinting toward Bass once more.
b. intransitive. figurative, with reference to moving quickly, suddenly, or erratically from one thing to another.
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1919 M. K. Powers in Business Nov. 18/1 Observe their eyes grass-hoppering here and there around the page until they light on an appealing tidbit.
1921 E. Ferber Girls x. 203 Jeannette's mind grasshoppered to another topic.
1966 J. Fowles Magus xxxvii. 230 My mind travelled up to the Bonnards, and grasshoppered from them to Alison.
1999 Independent on Sunday 4 Apr. (Culture section) 10/1 His prose was like this too, grasshoppering around and flinging out peremptory non-sequiturs.
2005 Guardian (Nexis) 30 July (Travel section) 2 This is how he speaks: tangential, disconnected, grasshoppering from thought to thought.
5. intransitive. With allusion to the fable of the ant and the grasshopper: to live in a frivolous manner, without planning or preparing for the future. Later chiefly transitive: to pass or waste (a period of time) improvidently; also with away.
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1917 Amer. Motorist Oct. 30/3 He wonders if he wasn't a fool not to have grasshoppered to the extent of having bought automobiles and bubble water with the money.
1949 Exper. Station Bull. (Louisiana State Univ.) No. 17. 19 If he has not grasshoppered his summers away and worked as the ant did, he no doubt has a good job to step right into.
1988 McCall's Nov. 84/2 I too have grasshoppered my time in the sun.
2005 Guardian (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) (Nexis) 17 June b1 To prepare for this season, she's funnelled most of her UPEI players into beach and indoor leagues or off-season conditioning programs—anything but grasshoppering away the summer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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