crup

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English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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crup (plural crups)

  1. Alternative form of croup (the rump of a horse)
    • 1904, The Leather Manufacturer - Volumes 15-16, page 105:
      The part immediately above the tail (i.e., the haunches) is the crup, and about 4 to 5 inches above the crup the butt is separated from the hide.

Etymology 2

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Compare Old High German grop, German grob (coarse).

Adjective

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crup (comparative more crup, superlative most crup)

  1. Short; brittle (both literally and figuratively).
    You'll have a nice walk, as the snow is very crup.
    • 1664, Thomas St Nicholas, Upon Mr. Benchkin, The Curate of Ash, His Presentment of Me to the Consistory Court at Canterbury For Helping to Lay my Poor Old Nurse, the Widow Solly, In her Grave As Soon as she was Brouth Thither and The Coverings, Without Noise or Disturbance, Taken Off:
      Why now so angry, trow ye? What's the matter, That our Sir James is grown so crup and tatter?
    • 1669, John Baptista Porta, Natural Magick, page 322:
      [] and care must be had to rost him so leasurely, that he neither burn, nor continue raw: for when the skin seems crup, it is a sign all is rosted, and the Polenta is taken away.
    • 1790, Francis Grose, Letters:
      He was tedious crup with me.

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Irish

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Verb

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crup (present analytic crupann, future analytic crupfaidh, verbal noun crupadh, past participle cruptha)

  1. Alternative form of crap (to shrink, contract)

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
crup chrup gcrup
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkrup/
  • Rhymes: -up
  • Hyphenation: crùp

Noun

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crup m (invariable)

  1. (medicine) croup

Derived terms

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French croup.

Noun

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crup n (uncountable)

  1. croup

Declension

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