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Added 9 October 2026

croup

/kɹuːp/ noun

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about croup at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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.

Origin

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.

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