grasshopper
pronunciation
How to pronounce grasshopper in British English:
UK [ˈgrɑ:shɒpə(r)]
How to pronounce grasshopper in American English:
US [ˈgræshɑpə(r)]
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- Noun:
- terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
- a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao)
Word Origin
- grasshopper (n.)
- popular name of insects with hind legs suited to jumping, mid-14c. (late 13c. as a surname), earlier greshoppe (c. 1200), from Old English gærshoppa; see grass + hopper (n.1). Similar formation in Middle Swedish gräshoppare, German Grashüpfer. As a term of reproach, from Eccl. xii:5. Also recorded c. 1300 as a name for the hare.
Example
- 1. Land prices finally peak in the grasshopper colonies .
- 2. Asian ants build up piles of grasshopper debt and feel rich .
- 3. Everybody in the west knows the fable of the grasshopper and the ant .
- 4. A cockroach in your drink is gross , but a grasshopper on a stick could be lunch .
- 5. Jobs disappear in both grasshopper colonies and ant nests and fiscal deficits soar , especially in grasshopper colonies .