dial. [? var. of CRUMP: cf. CRUP-SHOULDER.] ‘Short, brittle, as a crup cake; and fig., short or snappish, as a crup answer. Still used in Kent’ (Todd).
1736. Pegge, Kenticisms, Crup,… pettish, peevish.
1847–78. Halliwell, Crup, crisp, short; surly. South.
1887. Parish & Shaw, Kentish Gloss., Crup, crisp. ‘You’ll have a nice walk, as the snow is very crup.’
Crup(e, var. of CROUP sb.2, hind-quarters.
