hoppergrassn.
Originally and chiefly U.S. dialect.
= grasshopper n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Acrididae
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1829 Virginia Lit. Museum 30 Dec. 458 Hoppergrass. This word is often used in the south for grasshopper.
1892 12th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1891–2 163 Alas! the ‘hopper grasses’ came and carried it away.
1934 R. Campbell Broken Rec. viii. 200 Spectacles make men look like ridiculous hoppergrasses.
1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. i. 7 ‘Chkk! chkk!’ hopper-grass, Nothing but grasshoppers hopping past.
1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 67 Hopper grass, grasshopper.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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