croup
The top of the rump of a horse or other quadrupedThe top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
» Tom has croup.
Meaning
2 sensesThe top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
Kruppe
крупkrup
(uncountable)An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.
Krupp, Kehlkopfdiphtherie (diphtheric), Pseudokrupp (viral)
крупkrup
- a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing
- the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks
Examples
3 sentencesTom has croup.
The ordinary croup of infants is spasmodic croup, and is very rarely dangerous, although the symptoms seem very alarming.
Tom and Mary's baby had a severe bout of croup, and had to be put in a humidicrib in hospital.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English croupe, from Old French croupe (“rump, body”), from Old Norse kroppr (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.
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Forms
plural: croupsSynonyms
4 synonyms- a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing:spasmodic laryngitis
- the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks:hindquarterscrouperump