crowing
Meaning of crowing
verb, gerund or present participle
- (of a cock) utter its characteristic loud cry.
she was awakened in the mornings by cocks crowing
- (of a person) express great pride or triumph, especially in a tone of gloating satisfaction.
Ruby crowed with delight
avoid crowing about your success
‘I knew you 'd be back,’ she crowed
Old English crāwan, of West Germanic origin; related to German krähen, also to crow1; ultimately imitative.
Information about crowing
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of crowing
crow-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- crowing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
crowing synonyms
Meaning boastful:
boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, big
Meaning brag:
brag, bragging, crow, vaporing, gasconade
Meaning (of a bird) make a loud, harsh noise:
Meaning (of a person or animal) give a loud, harsh, piercing cry:
Meaning (of an owl) utter a hoot:
Meaning shed tears, typically as an expression of distress, pain, or sorrow:
Meaning utter a caw:
Meaning (of a person) make a sound similar to a croak when speaking or laughing:
Meaning talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities:
Meaning play a trumpet:
Meaning talk in a loud, aggressive, or indignant way with little effect:
Meaning walk or behave in a very confident and arrogant or self-important way:
Meaning display one's wealth, knowledge, or achievements in a way that is intended to impress others:
Meaning dwell on one's own success or another's misfortune with smugness or malignant pleasure:
Meaning (of troops) assemble for a formal inspection or ceremonial occasion:
Meaning display (something) ostentatiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance:
Meaning boast:
Meaning boast about or praise (something), especially excessively:
Meaning enjoy oneself or celebrate in a noisy or boisterous way:
Meaning talk boastfully:
Translation of crowing
Words that rhyme with crowing
Wing, wing, adawing, awing, bandsawing, begnawing, blawing, cawing, chainsawing, chawing, clapperclawing, clawing, counterdrawing, dawing, declawing, dragsawing, drawing, finedrawing, flawing, gnawing, guffawing, hacksawing, hawing, heehawing, horsedrawing, indrawing, inlawing, jawing, jigsawing, kawing, lawing, mawing, microdrawing, misdrawing, nonsawing, outawing, outdrawing, outgnawing, outlawing, overawing, overcrawing, overdrawing, parawing, pawawing, pawing, pickmawing, predrawing, pshawing, quartersawing, rawing
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