croup
/kɹuːp/
croup noun: the top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
Noun (1)
croup (plural croups)
- 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.1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald...
- 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.1835, Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history
Verb
croup (third-person singular simple present croups, present participle crouping, simple past and past participle crouped)
- To croak, make a hoarse noise.
Noun (2)
croup (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, […].1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
- 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.1897, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Pudd’nhead Wilson] Chapter”, in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American...
croup meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
croup in Tamil
- an infectious illness of the larynx
- பின்முதுகு piṉmutuku
croup in Urdu
- نرخرے کی سوجن
croup in Kannada
- ಗೂರಲು ಕೆಮ್ಮು
Forms of croup
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | croups |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | croups |
| present participle | crouping |
| past participle | crouped |
| past | crouped |
Origin of croup
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.
From Scots croup, croop (“the croup”), from Scots croup, crowp, croop (“to croak, speak hoarsely, murmur, complain”), from Old Scots crowp, crope, croap (“to call loudly, croak”), alteration of rowp, roup, roip, rope (“to cry, cry hoarsely, roop”), from Middle English roupen, ropen, from Old English hrōpan (“to shout, proclaim; cry out, scream, howl”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną (“to shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kor- (“to caw, crow”). More at roop. In the medical sense introduced by Edinburgh physician Francis Home.
Words formed from croup
Phrases with croup
Words that rhyme with croup
39 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- bloop
- cloop
- whoop
- coupe
- regroup
- roop
- saloop
- sloop
- snoop
- stoup
- alley oop
- boop
- gloop
- goop
- horse scoop
- jupe
- loupe
- roup
- troupe
- Tuesday Group
- astoop
- chat group
- dedupe
- drupe
- fisherman's soup
- FOUP
- French onion soup
- ginger group
- L'Anse-au-Loup
- locker loop
- matrix group
- ploop
- pupe
- shoop
- stewp
- stoep
- stupe
- voop
- zoop
Questions about croup
- What does croup mean?
- Croup means the top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
- What is croup in Tamil?
- Croup in Tamil is பின்முதுகு (piṉmutuku). See Croup meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is croup?
- Croup can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce croup?
- Croup is pronounced /kɹuːp/.
- What is the plural of croup?
- The plural of croup is croups.
Words near croup in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: croup (page history and authors); croup (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); croup (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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