English Explanatory Dictionary

footganger

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A juvenile locust or grasshopper while in its wingless or flightless phase.

Word forms

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Etymology

Perhaps from Dutch or Afrikaans voetganger (“pedestrian”, literally “foot-goer”), or a partial calque of German Fußgänger (“pedestrian”), equivalent to foot + ganger (“goer, walker, stepper”).

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