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.
Meanings
The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
Curved like a stallion's croup, from dusk to dawn, / And drums upon it with his heels, whereby / Is bred the neighing thunder in the hills. 1892, Rudyard Kipling, “The Sacrifice of Er-Heb”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 146:
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 Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC:
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:
cs zadek (top of the rump of a horse) · fi lautaset (top of the rump of a horse) · ca gropa (top of the rump of a horse) · az sağrı (top of the rump of a horse) · fr croupe (top of the rump of a horse) · lez сагъри (top of the rump of a horse) · gl sobrecú (top of the rump of a horse) · de Kruppe (top of the rump of a horse) · es grupa (top of the rump of a horse) · kum савру (top of the rump of a horse) · hy գավակ (top of the rump of a horse) · it groppa (top of the rump of a horse) · tly ümbə (top of the rump of a horse) · nrf croupe (top of the rump of a horse) · ru круп (top of the rump of a horse) · ro crupă (top of the rump of a horse) · enm cropoun (top of the rump of a horse) · gl rabadilla (top of the rump of a horse)
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.
Meanings
(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 Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 22:
lez бугъма (an infectious illness of the larynx) · tr krup (an infectious illness of the larynx) · fr croup (an infectious illness of the larynx) · cmn 喉氣管支氣管炎 /喉气管支气管炎 (an infectious illness of the larynx) · eo krupo (an infectious illness of the larynx) · cy crŵp (an infectious illness of the larynx) · hy խռիկ (an infectious illness of the larynx) · fi kuristustauti (an infectious illness of the larynx) · ga tochtán (an infectious illness of the larynx) · es garrotillo (an infectious illness of the larynx) · nl kroep (an infectious illness of the larynx) · sco croup (an infectious illness of the larynx) · de Krupp (an infectious illness of the larynx) · sv krupp (an infectious illness of the larynx) · da strubehoste (an infectious illness of the larynx) · de Pseudokrupp (viral) (an infectious illness of the larynx) · ca crup (an infectious illness of the larynx) · de Kehlkopfdiphtherie (diphtheric) (an infectious illness of the larynx) · pl krup (an infectious illness of the larynx) · ta பின்முதுகு (an infectious illness of the larynx) · bg спазматичен ларингит (an infectious illness of the larynx) · mk круп (an infectious illness of the larynx) · fi valekuristustauti (an infectious illness of the larynx) · yue 嘶吼症 (an infectious illness of the larynx) · hu krupp (an infectious illness of the larynx) · cmn 義膜性喉炎 /义膜性喉炎 (an infectious illness of the larynx) · gl crup (an infectious illness of the larynx) · es crup (an infectious illness of the larynx) · cmn 哮吼 (an infectious illness of the larynx) · hy խռուկ (an infectious illness of the larynx) · cmn 嘶吼症 (an infectious illness of the larynx) · ru круп (an infectious illness of the larynx)
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.
Meanings
(dialectal, obsolete) To croak, make a hoarse noise.