croppe

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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

crop, crope, cropp, croupe, crowpe

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkrɔp(ə)/

Noun

croppe (plural croppes)

The crop (avian digestive organ)
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)
A year's harvest or crop.
(rare, figuratively) The head or end of something.
(rare, derogatory) The stomach or belly.

Related terms

croppen

Descendants

English: crop
Scots: crap, crop, croip, cropt, croup, croop

Etymology 2

Noun

croppe

Alternative form of croupe

Etymology 3

Verb

croppe

Alternative form of croppen

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