Crouper vs Cropper - What's the difference?
crouper | cropper |
a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 185:
a person who nurtures and gathers a crop
a variety of plant producing a good harvest
A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
As nouns the difference between crouper and cropper
is that crouper is obsolete form of crupper while cropper is a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper.As a proper noun Cropper is
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English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- But to myself I thought: ‘Considering that for eight whole years I sat on the front bench as top of the class while he drifted about somewhere in the middle, he can hardly fail to nourish a wish, left over from his schooldays, that some day or other I may come a complete cropper.’
Etymology 2
a bird's cropEtymology 3
an agricultural cropNoun
(en noun)- That potato I grew last year was a good cropper .