gropper

See also: Gropper

English

Etymology

Clipping of grasshopper.

Noun

gropper (plural groppers)

1. (UK, informal, birdwatching) The grasshopper warbler.
   • 2001 April 29, Michael J Davis, “A grand day out and request for help”, in uk.rec.birdwatching‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Enjoyed a wide range of Sedge warblers, heard a gropper, and saw a spoonbill, and our first house martins and swifts of the year. The avocets were grand (nearly 50 of them) and not as argumentative as usual at his time of the year.

   • 2017 September 25, Patrick Barkham, “Twitchers and groppers: when birdwatching turns ugly”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     These overwhelmingly male gatherings remind me of paparazzi flocks I’ve encountered. Like a reluctant celebrity, the Pallas’s “gropper” (twitchers have their own language, as well as paparazzi-style ripping yarns about this trip or that shot) was skulking in the bushes.