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Croup   /krup/   Listen
Croup

noun
1.
A disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing.  Synonym: spasmodic laryngitis.
2.
The part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks.  Synonyms: croupe, hindquarters, rump.



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"Croup" Quotes from Famous Books



... homes of Marsden and its by-ways issued the eager guests. Girls in white frocks; boys in Sunday suits; all uncomfortable in freshly donned winter flannels—since this was to be a sort of out-doors party and there must be no afterclaps of croup; and elders in their second-best attire, worn with an affected indifference of its just ...
— The Brass Bound Box • Evelyn Raymond

... out what it was, we made a rush for him. At the next practice he appeared with a bright silver instrument covered with two bushels of keys and played a solo which sounded like three clarionets with the croup. We wept for joy and elected ...
— Homeburg Memories • George Helgesen Fitch

... said. "Not in bed yet! I've been called up. Child with croup. I don't suppose I shall be long, and Muriel is going down to make me some soup. If you'd ...
— The Squire's Daughter - Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons • Archibald Marshall

... loose, is heard in bronchitis. A short, tight, suppressed cough, which is followed by a grimace, and, perhaps, by a cry, indicates some inflammation about the chest, often pneumonia. There is a brazen, barking, "croupy" cough in spasmodic croup. In inflammation of the larynx, including true croup, the cough may be hoarse, croupy, or ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... town of Huajapam. The horseman, guided by these dragoons, was costumed as a vaquero—that is, he wore a jacket and wide calzoneros of brick-coloured deerskin, with a huge sombrero of black glaze on his head, and a speckled blanket folded over the croup of his saddle. He had already reported himself to the dragoons as the bearer of a message to the colonel—Don Rafael Tres-Villas. Furthermore, in addition to the horse on which he rode, he was leading another—a noble steed ...
— The Tiger Hunter • Mayne Reid


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