Meaning

(now rare, dialectal) A grasshopper..

Definitions by Sense

1. (now rare, dialectal) A grasshopper.
2. (ambitransitive) To move erratically here and there, like a grasshopper.

Example Sentences

But by the scorched bank-sides i' thy footsteps still I go plodding: Hedge-rows hot do resound with grasshops mournfully squeaking.

I don't want grasshops tew giv [sic] entirely out, not if they are a blessing, but i hav thought (to myself) if they would let the grass and cornstalks be, and pitch onto the burdoks and Canada thissells, i would bet a few dollars on the thissells, jist tew encourage the fight, and wouldn't care a cuss if they both got finally licked.

The margin was illumined all with golden rails And bees, enpictured with grasshops and wasps, With butterflies and fresh peacock tails, Engloried with flowers and slimy snails; [...]

[...] between a gulp and a vomit, when they're looking at you like you're the dumb one so you can't keep on staring at them. Maybe she ate grasshops. Maybe somebody put out food. I put out food.

It grasshops over the grass and bounds skyward. A matron crams a fresh stick of gum into her mouth and chews her words up with it.

He had to grasshop her, using long poles cabled to a donkey-engine capstan. Slowly, laboriously the ship inched backward, her fireboxes glowing orange-red, the crack of blocks and the booming slam of her engines shattering the night.

Word Forms

• grasshops
• grasshopping
• grasshopped

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When Should You Use Grasshop?

Use grasshop when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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