crup

English

Etymology 1

Noun

crup (plural crups)

1. Alternative form of croup (the rump of a horse)

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

crup (comparative more crup, superlative most crup)

1. short; brittle

   crup cake

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crup”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• cupr-

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Italian

Noun

crup m (uncountable)

1. (medicine) croup

Related terms

• crupale