croppe

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English cropp, croppa, from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body; lump; bunch; crop”). Doublet of croupe.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkrɔp(ə)/

Noun

croppe (plural croppes)

  1. The crop (avian digestive organ)
  2. The top of a plant or tree:
    1. A plant's aboveground portion.
    2. A seedling or bud; a new plant.
      • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 5-6.
        The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
        Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. A year's harvest or crop.
  4. (rare, figuratively) The head or end of something.
  5. (rare, derogatory) The stomach or belly.
Descendants
  • English: crop
  • Scots: crap, crop, croip, cropt, croup, croop

Etymology 2

Noun

croppe

  1. alternative form of croupe

Etymology 3

Verb

croppe

  1. alternative form of croppen
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