† crouponn.
Obsolete or dialect.
The croup or rump of a horse or other animal; the buttocks or posteriors of the human body; transferred the hinder part of a thing; the crupper of the harness.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [noun] > rump
arseeOE
croupc1300
crouponc1400
rumpc1425
rumplec1430
narsea1500
podex1601
poop1611
rump enda1658
breech1710
cushion1710
postabdomen1824
stern1830
bottle1935
dinger1943
ding1957
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun]
flitcha700
arse-endseOE
culec1220
buttockc1300
tail1303
toutec1305
nagea1325
fundamentc1325
tail-end1377
brawna1382
buma1387
bewschers?a1400
crouponc1400
rumplec1430
lendc1440
nachec1440
luddocka1475
rearwarda1475
croupc1475
rumpc1475
dock1508
hurdies1535
bunc1538
sitting place1545
bottom?c1550
prat1567
nates1581
backside1593
crupper1594
posteriorums1596
catastrophe1600
podex1601
posterior1605
seat1607
poop1611
stern1631
cheek1639
breeka1642
doup1653
bumkin1658
bumfiddle1661
assa1672
butt1675
quarter1678
foundation1681
toby1681
bung1691
rear1716
fud1722
moon1756
derrière1774
rass1790
stern-post1810
sit-down1812
hinderland1817
hinderling1817
nancy1819
ultimatum1823
behinda1830
duff?1837
botty1842
rear end1851
latter end1852
hinder?1857
sit1862
sit-me-down1866
stern-works1879
tuchus1886
jacksy-pardy1891
sit-upon1910
can1913
truck-end1913
sitzfleisch1916
B.T.M.1919
fanny1919
bot1922
heinie1922
beam1929
yas yas1929
keister1931
batty1935
bim1935
arse-end1937
twat1937
okole1938
bahookie1939
bohunkus1941
quoit1941
patoot1942
rusty-dusty1942
dinger1943
jacksie1943
zatch1950
ding1957
booty1959
patootie1959
buns1960
wazoo1961
tush1962
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > rump or type of
croupc1300
crouponc1400
crupper1591
goose-rump1679
hog rump1679
a1300 Gloss. Neckham in Wright Voc. 99 Clunes, crupuns.]
c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 2468 Fro his [the giant's] hals to his cropoun.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxi. 142 A faire beste..his crupoun and his taile er lyke to a hert.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 105/1 Cropon of a beste, clunis.
1483 Cath. Angl. 85 A Crovpon [v.r. Cruppon], clunis.
1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace i. ii. 9 I'd gar their Curpons crack.
1725 New Canting Dict. Croppin, the Tail of any Thing; as, The Croppin of the Rotan [= Cart].
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 159 The graip he for a harrow taks, An' haurls at his curpan.
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