Grasshopper

Noun

 * 1) A herbivorous insect of the order Orthoptera noted for its ability to jump long distances.
 * 2) An alcoholic beverage made with green crème de menthe.
 * 3)  a young student in initial stages 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:
 * 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.

Derived terms

 * knee high to a grasshopper

Verbs for Grasshopper
exterminate—; plague with—s; swarm with —s; —alights; —chews; —chirrups; — damage; —leaps; —limps; —races; —reposes on; —secretes; —sings; —sips; — skips; — strip; —vaults; —wings.

Thesaurus
broad jumper, bucking bronco, buckjumper, cicada, cicala, cricket, dog-day cicada, feckless, flea, frog, gazelle, goat, happy-go-lucky, heedless, high jumper, hopper, hoppergrass, hurdle racer, hurdler, improvident, jackrabbit, jumper, jumping bean, jumping jack, kangaroo, leaper, locust, negligent, pole vaulter, salmon, shiftless, stag, sunfisher, thoughtless, thriftless, timber topper, uneconomical, unproviding, unthrifty, vaulter

Etymology
From.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"gr\A:s%hQp@(r\)/|/gr\{s%hQp@(r\)/}}
 * , {{SAMPA|/"gr\{s%hAp@r\/}}
 * , {{SAMPA|/"gr\{s%hAp@r\/}}

Translations

 * Ainu: パッタ (patta), パッタキ (pattaki)
 * Armenian: մորեխ (morex)
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: matxinsalto, saltamatxino
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: llagosta, saltamartí
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 蚱蜢, 螞蚱, 蚂蚱
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Darkinjung:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: rohutirts
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Heuschrecke ; Grashüpfer
 * Gothic: 𐌸𐍂𐌰𐌼𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹 (þramstei)
 * Greek: ακρίδα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: engispretta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 飛蝗, バッタ (ばった, batta); 蝗 (いなご, inago), きりぎりす (kirigirisu)
 * Korean: 메뚜기 (mettugi)
 * Korean: 메뚜기 (mettugi)


 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian: sienāzis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luo:
 * Mongolian: царцаа (tsartsaa)
 * Nahuatl: chapultepec
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: gresshoppe
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: tilibirche
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: скакавац
 * Roman: skakavac
 * Skolt Sami: aacaǩ
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: малах
 * Telugu: మిడుత (miDuta)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkish: