From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], alteration of earlier [enm], from [en]. Equivalent to [en].
Cognate with [stq], [nl], [nl], [nds-de], [nds-de], [de], [da], [sv], [no].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A mostly herbivorous insect of the order [Orthoptera] , noted for its ability to jump long distances and for the habit of some species communicating by stridulation ; they are related to but distinct from cricket s.
2. * [page=168]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1901 | author=Sylvester D. Judd | title=The Relation of Sparrows to Agriculture | page=91
|passage=But it is as a destroyer of GRASSHOPPERS that the dickcissel
excels.}}
1. In the strict sense, refers to insects in the suborder [Caelifera] , particularly those in the family [Acrididae] .
2. In a looser sense, also includes the katydid s (also known as longhorned grasshoppers or bush crickets), which are members of the family [Tettigoniidae] , of the suborder Ensifera .
1. A cocktail made with crème de menthe and optionally with crème de cacao .
2. * [en]
3. [en] A young student in the initial stage s of training who has been chosen on account of their obvious talent .
4. * 2009 , B.P. Terpstra, _Quadrant_ , November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 2:
5. *: Although we don't know exactly _why_ Li is chosen to dance, we witness a man assuring officials that the child isn't from bourgeois stock. Phew. There are no known landowners in the family, so the GRASSHOPPER passes some cultural purity test, in a state often fixated on class warfare, driven by the cult of personality, and bullied by paranoia.
6. [en] A frequent user of marijuana .
7. [en] In ordinary square or upright piano s of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key.
8. * [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|[grasshopper lobster] |American bird grasshopper |bird grasshopper
|blue-winged grasshopper |differential grasshopper| green grasshopper
|grasshopperdom|migratory grasshopper |grasshopper engine |Grasshopper Falls
|grasshopper green |grasshopperish |grasshopperlike |grasshopper mouse
|grasshopper pie |Grasshopper Pueblo |grasshopper warbler |knee-high to a
grasshopper |knee high to a grasshopper |long-horned grasshopper |Pallas's
grasshopper warbler |short-horned grasshopper |spur-throated grasshopper
|three-banded grasshopper |trail ridge scrub grasshopper |two-striped
grasshopper }}
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[an insect of the suborder Caelifera]
- Abinomn: [bsa] , [bsa] , [bsa]
- Adyghe: [ady]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Ainu: [ain] , [ain]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [hy]
- Assamese: [as]
- Avestan: [ae]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu]
- Bau Bidayuh: [sne]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Bouyei: [pcc]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Central Melanau: [mel]
- Chepang: [cdm]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: [cv]
- Coptic: [cop]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Darkinjung: [xda]
- Dupaningan Agta: [duo]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Egyptian: [znḥm]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Guaraní: [gn]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ilocano: [ilo]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Jeju: [jje]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Karachay-Balkar: [krc]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Kimaragang: [kqr]
- Kituba: [ktu]
- Klamath-Modoc: [kla]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kumeyaay: [nai-kum]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luo: [luo]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malagasy: [mg]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc] , [mnc]
- Manx: [gv] , [gv] , [gv] , [gv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Mari:
- Mi'kmaq: [mic] , [mic] [en] , [mic] [en]
- Minangkabau: [min]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Mpade: [mpi]
- Muong: [mtq]
- Nahuatl:
- Navajo: [nv]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Ojibwe: [oj]
- Old English: [ang] , [ang]
- Old Tupi: [tpw]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt] , [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa] , [pa] [dialectal]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- S'gaw Karen: [ksw]
- Sanskrit: [sa] , [sa] , [sa] , [sa] , [sa] , [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Skolt Sami: [sms]
- Slovak: [sk] , [colloquial] [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Southern Altai: [alt] , [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] [Mexico]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagal Murut: [mvv] , [mvv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tarifit: [rif]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
- Udmurt: [udm]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- West Coast Bajau: [bdr] , [bdr]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Wolof: [wo]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo] , [yo] , [yo] , [yo]
- Zazaki: [zza]
- Zhuang: [za]
[trans-bottom]
[long-horned grasshopper]
[an insect of the order Orthoptera in general]
[alcoholic beverage] [trans-bottom]
[young student]
- French: [fr]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
**** See also
[list:extant orders of insects/en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] Of a crop , to be ruin ed or destroy ed by grasshoppers.
2. [en] To move a riverboat over an obstruction , such as a sandbar .
3. [en] Of an animal , to hunt and eat grasshoppers.
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
- [grasshopper (cocktail)]
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