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CROUPY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does croupy mean?
• CROUPY (adjective)
The adjective CROUPY has 1 sense:
1. resembling or arising from or indicating croup
Familiarity information: CROUPY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling or arising from or indicating croup
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
croup (a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing)
Derivation:
croup (a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing)
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