croup

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
    — So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung.
  2. An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty. uncountable
    — 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, […].
动词 v.
  1. To croak, make a hoarse noise. dialectal,obsolete

词形变化

croups plural croups present,singular,third-person crouping participle,present crouped participle,past crouped past

词汇关系

衍生词
croupal

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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