different between buttocks vs croupe

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?t?ks/

Noun

buttocks

1. plural of buttock.
   • 1707, Thomas Brown, "Moll Quarles's Answer to Mother Creswell of Famous Memory" in The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Tho. Brown, containing Letters from the Dead to the Living both Serious and Comical, part three, page 184:

     At lea?t five Hundred of the?e reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ran?acking our Hou?es, leaving me ?ometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ?o much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]

English

Etymology

French

Alternative forms

• croup

Noun

croupe (plural croupes)

1. That part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks

Synonyms

• crupper, rump

Anagrams

• recoup, upcore

French

Etymology

Old French crope, of Germanic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?up/

Noun

croupe f (plural croupes)

1. (chiefly of horses) The part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks.
2. (colloquial, especially of women) bottom, derrière.

Descendants

• ? German: Krupp
• ? Italian: groppa
• ? Occitan: cropa
• ? Portuguese: garupa
• ? Spanish: grupa

Further reading

• “croupe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• couper

Norman

Etymology

From Old French crope, of Germanic origin.

Noun

croupe f (plural croupes)

1. (Jersey, anatomy) croup, rump