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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Croupy

Croupy \Croup"y\ (kr[=oo]p"[y^]), a. Of or pertaining to croup; resembling or indicating croup; as, a croupy cough.

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croupy

a. Of, pertaining to, suggestive of, or caused by croup.

WordNet
croupy

adj. resembling or arising from or indicating croup

Usage examples of "croupy".

Down that ipecac went, not only once, but many times during the long, anxious night when the two little girls worked patiently over the suffering Minnie May, and Young Mary Joe, honestly anxious to do all she could, kept up a roaring fire and heated more water than would have been needed for a hospital of croupy babies.

Didn't parents dash out for a quart of milk or a croupy child's cough medicine?

In the vast room there was no sound except Lady Sutton’s croupy breathing.