bush cricket

noun

chiefly British
: long-horned grasshopper
It was a dark bush cricket, that bumbling long-legged relative of the grasshoppers, whose soft chirrup is now the soundtrack to East Anglia's late-summer evenings.Mark Cocker, Guardian (London), 20 Aug. 2012

Word History

First Known Use

1930, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bush cricket was in 1930

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“Bush cricket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bush%20cricket. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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