croup
pronunciation
How to pronounce croup in British English:
UK [kru:p]
How to pronounce croup in American English:
US [krup]
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- Noun:
- a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing
- the part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks
Word Origin
- croup
- croup: see crop
- croup (n.)
- "coughing illness," 1765, from obsolete verb croup "to cry hoarsely, croak" (1510s), probably echoic. This was the local name of the disease in southeastern Scotland, given wide currency by Dr. Francis Home (1719-1813) of Edinburgh in his 1765 article on it. Related: Croupy.