Associations to the word «Croup»
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Adjective
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Wiktionary
CROUP, noun. The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
CROUP, verb. (obsolete outside dialects) To croak, make a hoarse noise.
CROUP, noun. (pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.
Dictionary definition
CROUP, noun. A disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing.
CROUP, noun. The part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.