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crup

/kɹʌp/

crup is the alternative form of croup.

Meaning of croup

Noun (1)

croup (plural croups)

  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.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...

Noun (2)

croup (uncountable)

  1. 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

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Adjective

crup (comparative more crup, superlative most crup)

  1. Short; brittle (both literally and figuratively).
    • You'll have a nice walk, as the snow is very crup.
    • Why now so angry, trow ye? What's the matter, That our Sir James is grown so crup and tatter?1664, Thomas St Nicholas, Upon Mr. Benchkin, The Curate of Ash, His Presentment of Me to the Consistory Court at Canterbury For Helping to Lay my Poor Old Nurse, the Widow Solly, In her Grave As Soon...

Forms of crup

Noun
pluralcrups
Adjective
comparativemore crup
superlativemost crup

Origin of crup

Compare Old High German grop, German grob (“coarse”).

Words that rhyme with crup

12 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about crup

What does crup mean?
Crup means short; brittle (both literally and figuratively).
What is crup the alternative form of?
Crup is the alternative form of croup.
What part of speech is crup?
Crup is an adjective.
How do you pronounce crup?
Crup is pronounced /kɹʌp/.

Words near crup in the dictionary

  1. cruor
  2. cruoric
  3. cruorin
  4. cruorine
  5. cruorins
  6. crup
  7. Crupi
  8. Crupis
  9. crupper
  10. cruppered
  11. cruppering

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