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croup

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9
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12
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5
Pronunciation
/kɹuːp/

Definition of croup

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
    “So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung.”
    “The guib [a kind of antelope] is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.”
    “Curved like a stallion's croup, from dusk to dawn, / And drums upon it with his heels, whereby / Is bred the neighing thunder in the hills.”
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noun

  1. The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
    “So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung.”
    “The guib [a kind of antelope] is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup.”
    “Curved like a stallion's croup, from dusk to dawn, / And drums upon it with his heels, whereby / Is bred the neighing thunder in the hills.”
  2. (uncountable)An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.
    “Yes; I've nursed five children and buried three; and the one I loved the best of all, and tended through croup, and teething, and measles, and hooping-cough, and brought up with foreign masters, regardless of expense, […].”
    “Percy Northumberland Driscoll[…]had had children around his hearthstone; but they were attacked in detail by measles, croup and scarlet fever, and this had given the doctor a chance with his effective antediluvian methods; so the cradles were empty.”

verb

  1. (dialectal, obsolete)To croak, make a hoarse noise.

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Etymology

From Middle English croupe, from Old French croupe (“rump, body”), from Old Norse kroppr (“body, trunk, mass”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, mass, heap, collection, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”). More at crupper, doublet of croupe, group, and crop.

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