Definitions for croupy

croupy croup·y

Spelling: [kroo-pee]
IPA: /ˈkru pi/

Croupy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in croupy (copruy).

Definitions for croupy

adjective

  1. pertaining to or resembling croup.
  2. affected with croup.

Origin of croupy

First recorded in 1825-35; croup1 + -y1

Examples for croupy

But he had gone to the minister's to see a croupy child, so the girl sat down by the fire to wait.

The children were croupy, and one morning an alcohol lamp near little Clara's bed, blown by the draught, set fire to the canopy.

Give castor oil to a child showing symptoms of a croupy cough.

Taking a quick, deep breath, he sounded his call for aid—a loud, croupy cough.

I don't want the child to get croupy and not know anything about it.

Alice was croupy, and I went upstairs to her as early as I could.

There is a brazen, barking, "croupy" cough in spasmodic croup.

Even now, hearing a child struggling with that croupy rattle hits her in the gut.

Then silence, save for a subdued sound of scrubbing here and there, and the puny squall of croupy infants.

I was a little boy an' croupy, and he seemed big as a house when he came in at the door.

Word Value for croupy
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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