grasshopEtymologyFrom Middle English grashoppe, grashope, from Old English græshoppa (“grasshopper”). More at grasshopper.nounA grasshopper.“But by the scorched bank-sides i' thy footsteps still I go plodding: Hedge-rows hot do resound with grasshops mournfully squeaking.”verbTo 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.”