footganger, noun
- Forms:
- Also foot gangher.
- Origin:
- Englished form of Afrikaans voetganger.
obs.
1. voetganger sense 1.
1873 F. Boyle To Cape for Diamonds 300We drove through a host of foot-gangers on the trek. These are the larvae of the locust, much more dreaded than the full-grown insect. They remain without wings for three years, moving about the country in the multitudes so often described.
1877 R.M. Ballantyne Settler & Savage 249The ground was alive with them. Armies, legions were there — not full-grown flying locusts, but young ones, styled foot-gangers, in other words crawlers, walkers, or hoppers.
2. voetganger sense 2 a.
1901 P.J. Du Toit Diary (1974) 43A good many of Kemp’s Footgangers and some Kamp-vreters were mostly caught. Two of the cannon taken were defect[ive].
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