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katydid U.S.|ˈkeɪtɪdɪd|
Also catydid, kattiedid, kittydid.
[Echoic.]
A large longhorn grasshopper of the family Tettigoniidæ, of arboreal habits, which produces by stridulation a noise to which its name is due; the common or broad-winged species (Cyrtophyllum concavum) abounds in the central and eastern states of America.
[1751J. Bartram Observations Pensilvania to Ontario 70 It was fair and pleasant, and the great green grasshopper began to sing (Catedidist) these were the first I observed this year.] 1784J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. II. 243 They are named by the inhabitants here katy did's, from their note, which is loud and strong, bearing a striking resemblance to those words. 1800A. Wilson in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 346 Owls, crickets, treefrogs, kittydids resound. 1805Ibid. 113 October..roused the katydid in chattering wrath. 1825Paulding J. Bull in Amer. iii. 35 The frogs croaked, the caty-dids caty-didded it, the crickets chirped. 1832F. Trollope Dom. Manners Amer. (1894) I. 135 Locusts, kattiedids, beetles, and hornets. 1838E. Flagg Far West II. 214 Even until the morning dawned did a concert of whippoorwills and catydids keep up their infernal oratorio. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. (1883) 186 Voices..stridulous enough to sing duets with the katydids. 1859A. Cary Pict. Country Life iv. 92 The caty-dids..were noisily welcoming the early autumn. 1886Outing (U.S.) IX. 106/2 Soon the chiding katydids mingled their voices with the rush of the foaming river. 1909Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republ. 16 Sept. 1 All around the globe people are like katydids, saying he did and he didn't in an endless reiteration. 1935M. Moore Sel. Poems 64 The small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye. 1942E. O. Essig College Entomology viii. 95 The name ‘katydid’ has gradually replaced all others. It originated in the United States, having been derived from characteristic stridulatory sounds produced by the males of certain green species, notably Pterophylla camellifolia..whose note, the loudest of all species of the eastern states, simulates ‘Katy did, Katy she did’. 1957L. Eiseley Immense Journey 25 The skilled listener can distinguish man's noise from the katydid's rhythmic assertion. 1972Swan & Papp Common Insects N. Amer. iii. 74 Katydids are predominantly green, have exceedingly long antennae, are more often heard than seen. |
