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Definition: Croup |
CroupNoun1. A disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing. 2. The part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "croup" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that your child has the croup, denotes slight illness, but useless fear for its safety. This is generally a good omen of health and domestic harmony. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Health | A condition characterized by resonant barking cough, hoarseness and persistant stridor and caused by allergy, foreign body, infection, or neoplasm. It occurs chiefly in infants and children. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word may also refer to the rump of a quadruped (see croupier).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Croup."
Synonyms: CroupSynonyms: croupe (n), hindquarters (n), rump (n), spasmodic laryngitis (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rear | Occiput, nape, chine; heels; tail, rump, croup, buttock, posteriors, backside scut, breech, dorsum, loin; dorsal region, lumbar region; hind quarters; aitchbone; natch, natch bone. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Croup |
| English words defined with "croup": Childcrowing, Croupous, croupy, Crup ♦ False croup, False membrane ♦ Pallah ♦ Stridulous laryngitis. (references) |
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Screenplays | Croup and Vandemar, the Old Firm, obstacles obliterated, nuisances eradicated, bothersome limbs removed and tutelary dentistry undertaken. (NeverWhere; writing credit: Neil Gaiman; Lenny Henry) Say the word, Mister Croup, and it'll be off his shoulders before you can say Jack Ketch. (NeverWhere; writing credit: Neil Gaiman; Lenny Henry) | |
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Health | HPIV-1 causes biennial outbreaks of croup in the fall (presently in the United States during odd numbered years). (references) | |
Symptoms of respiratory illness caused by adenovirus infection range from the common cold syndrome to pneumonia, croup, and bronchitis. (references) | ||
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| "Croup" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Croup" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.5% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "croup": False croup ♦ Manna croup ♦ membranous croup ♦ spasmodic croup. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
croup | 409 |
croup cough | 19 |
croup treatment | 5 |
croup symptom | 5 |
contagious croup | 4 |
spasmodic croup | 4 |
croup infant | 4 |
viral croup | 4 |
adult croup | 4 |
asthma croup | 3 |
croup tent | 3 |
adult croup in | 3 |
croup child | 2 |
croup in child | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "croup"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bollgur i imët guri (manna croup). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كفل الحيوان ذي الأربع, خناق (angina), الخناق مرض يصيب الحنجرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | круп (hives), задница (fundament, huckle, posterior, rump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | záškrt (diphtheria). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pseudocroup (acute laryngotracheobronchitis, acute LBT), laryngitis hypoglottica (acute laryngotracheobronchitis, acute LBT), kryds (four-way tee, lease), falsk strubehoste (acute laryngotracheobronchitis, acute LBT). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kruis (cross, crotch, fork, grid, hash, loin, number sign, pound sign, seat, sharp), kroep (acute laryngotracheobronchitis, acute LBT). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقعد (Anus, Rectum), کفل اسب , ترک اسب , خناک , خناق (Asphyxia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | valekuristustauti (acute laryngotracheobronchitis, acute LBT), pseudokruppi (acute laryngotracheobronchitis, acute LBT), lautaset (cymbals). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | croupe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kruppe (crupper), Krupp. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρουπ (acute laryngotracheobronchitis, acute LBT), καπούλια (buttocks), κοκίτησ (whooping cough), γλουτός (buttocks, nates), γλουτοί ίππου, λαρυγγίτισ με βήχα και δύσπνοιαν, ψευδομεμβρανώδης λαρυγγίτιδα (acute laryngotracheobronchitis, acute LBT). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | torokgyulladás (angina, laryngitis, pharyngitis, sore throat), krupp, far (arse, bum, buttocks, derričre, hunker, pelvic limb, rump, tail), álhártyás torokgyulladás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | groppa (back, horseback). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | toghtane, lieh jerree (breech, stern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oupcray garupa (haunch, rump). (various references) crupã (buttocks, crupper, rump), crup, difterie (diphtheria), anghinã (angina). (various references) круп. (various references) gušobolja (angina, sore throat). (various references) crup (acute laryngotracheobronchitis, acute LBT), anca (ham, haunch, rump). (various references) strypsjuka, krupp, kors (blimey, cross, dagger, dear me, lumme, lummy, oh dear, sharp, strewth). (various references) krup hastalığı, but (buttock, croupe, drumstick, gigot, haunch, hindquarter, huckle, leg, rump, thigh). (various references) круп, зад (arse, ass, behind, breech, buttock, fundament, posterior, prat). (various references) thanh quản (croupe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "croup": croupe, croupes, croupier, croupiers, croupiest, croupily, croupous, croups, croupy. (additional references) | |
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"Croup" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Broxup, cerou, craop, croap, Croob, croog, croop, crou, Croud, Croun, croupe, crous, Crout, croux, crowp, Crudup, kroop, Kroupa, Rokupa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "croup" (pronounced kruw"p) |
| 3 | -r uw" p | droop, drupe, group, intergroup, regroup, troop, troupe. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-o-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: coup, crop, pour, roup. | |
-2 letters: cop, cor, cup, cur, orc, our, pro, pur, roc, upo. | |
-3 letters: op, or, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-o-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: corpus, croupe, croups, croupy, recoup. | |
+2 letters: copular, corrupt, coupler, coverup, croupes, cuprous, outcrop, pouncer, precoup, procure, produce, product, recoupe, recoups. | |
+3 letters: acarpous, cockspur, computer, copurify, corpuses, corrupts, couplers, coverups, croupier, croupily, croupous, cupboard, cupreous, cuspidor, euphoric, occupier, opercula, opercule, outcaper, outcrops, outprice, polyuric, pouchier, pouncers, precious, prefocus, procural, procured, procurer, procures, produced, producer, produces, products, recouped, recouple, reoccupy, sculptor, sunporch, supercop, uroscopy. | |
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