footganger

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A juvenile locust or grasshopper while in its wingless or flightless phase.
    — Midway between Bloomfontein and Kimberley, while riding with Major Beresford, of the South African Constabulary, at the foot of some low hills in the Karoo bush, I came across great numbers of the footgangers.

词形变化

footgangers plural foot-ganger alternative

词源

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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