Etymology

koringkriek

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Today it means: An armoured bush cricket (Acanthoplus discoidalis); Full definition →

Afrikaans koring
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The story

  1. Afrikaans · borrowed fromkoring
  2. English todaykoringkriek

From Afrikaans koring (“corn, wheat”) + kriek (“cricket”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.