"grasshop" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: grasshops [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English grashoppe, grashope, from Old English græshoppa (“grasshopper”). More at grasshopper. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|grashoppe}} Middle English grashoppe, {{m|enm|grashope}} grashope, {{inh|en|ang|græshoppa||grasshopper}} Old English græshoppa (“grasshopper”), {{l|en|grasshopper}} grasshopper Head templates: {{en-noun}} grasshop (plural grasshops)
  1. (now rare, dialectal) grasshopper Tags: archaic, dialectal Categories (lifeform): Crickets and grasshoppers
    Sense id: en-grasshop-en-noun-t~IkGarP Disambiguation of Crickets and grasshoppers: 69 31
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Forms: grasshops [present, singular, third-person], grasshopping [participle, present], grasshopped [participle, past], grasshopped [past]
Etymology: Back-formation from grasshopper. Etymology templates: {{back-form|en|grasshopper}} Back-formation from grasshopper Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} grasshop (third-person singular simple present grasshops, present participle grasshopping, simple past and past participle grasshopped)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To move erratically here and there, like a grasshopper Tags: intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-grasshop-en-verb-OLarkjkG Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English back-formations: 15 85 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 83 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 19 81
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for grasshop meaning in English (4.8kB)

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