Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: croup
IPA transcription: [kɹ'up]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hindquarters, croup, croupe, rump
    Meaning: the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks
  • Synonyms: croup, spasmodic_laryngitis
    Meaning: a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing
Usage examples
  • And Sir Tristram smote him harder, and bare him through the body, and he fell over his horse's croup.
  • Then he sat on his croup, and did his back and sides; then he turned around like a monkey, and attacked his hind-quarters, and combed his tail.
  • So Sir Daname came forth on horseback, and there they met together with spears, and Sir Lucan smote down Sir Daname over his horse's croup, and then he fled into that place, and Sir Lucan rode after him, and asked after him many times.