croup
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɹuːp/
croup (plural croups)
- The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
- 1808 February 21, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: Printed by J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, OCLC 270129616 ↗:
- So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung.
croup (croups, present participle crouping; past and past participle crouped)
- (obsolete, outside, dialects) To croak, make a hoarse noise.
croup (uncountable)
- (pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.
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