Crout vs Croup - What's the difference?
crout | croup |
(archaic) sauerkraut
* 1869 , Edward Parmelee Smith, Incidents of the United States Christian commission (page 419)
The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1835 , Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history
(pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.
As nouns the difference between crout and croup
is that crout is (archaic) sauerkraut while croup is the top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped or croup can be (pathology) an infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.As a verb croup is
(obsolete|outside|dialects) to croak, make a hoarse noise.crout
English
Noun
- It was an invoice from the town of Lebanon, Ohio, of thirty-four barrels of crout and pickled cabbage. I could not help crying out on the spot — "Thank God for Lebanon! Thank God for the crout and cabbage."
croup
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) croupe, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung.
- The guib [a kind of antelope] is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup .