Talk:locust
I suggest a different etymology. It should be from old French "languste" and not "langouste". Langouste is modern French. ( http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=locust ) - Raczy (talk) 10:31, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
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RFV of the sense relating to Chinese Mainlanders. 蝗蟲 is used, but is English "locust" actually used identically? —suzukaze (t・c) 05:42, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
Everything I found is talking about the way Hong Kong people use this term, or the "anti-locust" protests. In other words, this is the sort of thing the use/mention distinction is there for: I find no evidence that this is an English term. I am calling this RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 22:54, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
== Mainlander remark
Requests[edit]
Can someone please get rid of this unexplained and out-of-context remark: "The sense in "Mainlander" directly borrows Chinese 蝗蟲 (wong4 cung4), also meaning "locust"." 2001:171B:2274:2491:7929:DDE0:5BC0:F6DC 20:38, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
Can someone please add 'Kapakapa' as a Māori translation? This old editing format scares me. (Source: Which New Zealand Insect?, Andrew Cowe, 2002 pg. 100)