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croupy

[ kroo-pee ]

adjective

croupier, croupiest.
  1. pertaining to or resembling croup.
  2. affected with croup.


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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¦°ù´Ç³Ü±èi·±ô²â adverb
  • ³¦°ù´Ç³Ü±èi·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of croupy1

First recorded in 1825–35; croup 1 + -y 1
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He had been perfectly healthy until that morning, when he woke with a fever and croupy cough.

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“You should see her naked,†General Dreedle chortled with croupy relish, while his nurse stood smiling proudly right at his shoulder.

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Ben then shows his vulnerability by screaming like a croupy baby on all the rides while Amanda calmly sits next to him polishing her lip gloss.

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It seemed time to acknowledge that in the future, the little girls whose hair we once brushed and whose croupy coughs we listened for would be returning as guests, not residents.

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Writers for The New Yorker in the 1930s and ’40s described him as a “Superman of Law†who spoke in a “gruff, croupy, dictatorial tone.â€

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