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/krˈoʊɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Crow v. i. (past crew or crowed; past part. crowed, obs. crown; pres. part. crowing)

To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. "The cock had crown." "The morning cock crew loud."

To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.

To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure. "The sweetest little maid, That ever crowed for kisses."

To crow over, to exult over a vanquished antagonist. "Sennacherib crowing over poor Jerusalem."

adjective

crowing adj.

Same as bragging.

Synonyms: boastful, braggart(prenominal), bragging(prenominal), braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandizing, vainglorious.

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Etymology of 'Crowing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... on the anvil lent cheer to the otherwise harsh and unlovely mood that had fallen upon Nature over night. It sang a song of defiance that even the mournful chant of sheep on the distant slopes failed to subdue. The crowing of a belated and no doubt mortified rooster, the barking of faraway dogs, the sighing of journeying winds, the lugubrious whistle of Mr. Clarence Dillingford, —all of these added something to the ...

— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon

... something that will raise you quicker than yeast," he said, beating a hasty retreat, while the indignant young lady verified his words by leaping half-way across the floor, her angry tones mingling with Willie's crowing laugh, as the child took the whole for fun, meant expressly for ...

— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes

... interesting to rear a few pheasants annually. There is no bird which gives more delight, even if fairly tame; their beautiful colouring and cheerful crowing are always pleasant in the garden and woods around your house. If you feed them every day, they will come regularly up to the very door; and with them come the swans, waddling up from the water, looking very ...

— A Cotswold Village • J. Arthur Gibbs

... Autumn, with all the country veiled in softest haze. It was very early morning, and few people were upon the road, although since the first light of dawn men had been working in field and forest. From a farmhouse off the road came the crowing of a cock and the creak of a cumbrous handmill hidden in a thick copse near by. Nicanor, sitting by the roadside where he had slept, ate the food remaining overnight in his wallet, and rolled his sheepskin cloak into a bundle for his shoulders. ...

— Nicanor - Teller of Tales - A Story of Roman Britain • C. Bryson Taylor

... into contact with the inspired air, this substance grows thick and tough, or leathery, as we find it. It is the obstruction in the respiratory canal which this foreign matter causes that gives rise to the labored breathing, and the ringing, brassy cough, together with the crowing or whistling inspiration characteristic of croup. Before recovery can take place this membrane must be detached and expelled. The cough is nature's effort to accomplish ...

— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

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