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footganger
footganger
See also: foot-ganger
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Noun
footganger (plural footgangers)
- (entomology) A juvenile locust or grasshopper while in its wingless or flightless phase.
- 1902, Journal of the Society of Arts:
- 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.
- 1904, Mark Sykes, John Hugh Smith, Edward Granville Browne, Dar-ul-Islam: A Record of a Journey Through Ten of the Asiatic Provinces of Turkey:
- We passed several swarms of locusts in the footganger stage; but owing to the lateness of their appearance the damage they effected was slight, though we met many people coming from the west, whose crops had been utterly destroyed.
- 1902, Journal of the Society of Arts: