Noun: grasshop
| Singular | grasshop |
| Plural | grasshops |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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[...] 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:]
Nouns inflected like grasshop
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English grashoppe, grashope, from Old English græshoppa (“grasshopper”). More at grasshopper. See: Middle English Nouns '
grashoppe', Old English Nouns '
græshoppa'.