grasshop

plural grasshops

1. archaicdialectalA grasshopper.

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

   1839, Henry Hallam, Introduction to the literature of Europe, Volume 2

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   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.

   1868, Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings on Ice and Other Things

   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; [...]

   1930, Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania - Volume 2 - Page 58

   [...] 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.

   1995, G. Lish, The Quarterly - Volumes 29-30 - Page 18

present singular third person grasshops · participle present grasshopping · participle past grasshopped · past grasshopped

1. ambitransitiveTo move erratically here and there, like a grasshopper.

   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.

   1935, Frank Crowninshield, Vanity Fair - Volume 43, Issue 6 - Page 35

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   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.

   2011, Charles Ryan, Phoenix Strike