crow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
government
lifestyle
military
music
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English crowe, from Old English crāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *krāā, from Proto-Germanic *krēǭ (compare West Frisian krie, Dutch kraai, German Krähe), from *krēaną (“to crow”). See below.
Inflected forms:
form: crows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crowed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: crew
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: crowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crew
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: crown
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
pos: noun
examples: Gaslark in his splendour on the golden stairs saying adieu to those three captains and their matchless armament foredoomed to dogs and crows on Salapanta Hills.
gloss: Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
pos: noun
gloss: A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
pos: noun
examples: He approached the humble tomb in which Antonia reposed. He had provided himself with an iron crow and a pick-axe: but this precaution was unnecessary.
Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that.
gloss: Someone who keeps watch while their associates commit a crime; a lookout.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
slang
examples: “Ay,” put in a young man, who had the reputation of being the smartest “crow” in London—“‘fishers of men,’ as the parson says.”
By nine o'clock on the evening of November 12, 1854, Pierce had his confederates in their places. The crow, Agar's woman, lounged across the street from the Trent mansion.
gloss: A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The mesentery of an animal.
pos: noun
gloss: An ill-tempered and obstinate woman, or one who otherwise has features resembling the bird; a harpy.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: But it helps a man along to have a wife he can be proud of. Suppose you marry some old crow. People point at her and ask, 'Who is that death's head yonder?'
(Mrs. Meany to Woody, from a window) "I don't care! I'm not running a pet shop."
"Well it looks like one with an old crow in the window!"
gloss: A black person.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
offensive
slang
slur
gloss: The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: A young petty officer that must have just received his “crow” (a single chevron, with an eagle over it) was showing off to several seamen.
The young man had been threatened with loss of his third class rank, his “crow,” the eagle in a petty officer's sleeve insignia.
gloss: To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Yet once me thought it [the ghost of Hamlet's father] was about to ſpeake, / And lifted vp his head to motion, / Like as he would ſpeake, but euen the / The morning cocke crew lowd, and in all haſte / It ſhrunke in haſte away, and vaniſhed / Our ſight.
This is the Cock that crowed in the Morn[.]
'You are that Psyche' Cyril said again / 'The mother of the sweetest little maid, / That ever crow'd for kisses.'
The child was at this time about ten months old, and was a strong, hearty, happy infant, always laughing when he was awake and always sleeping when he did not laugh, because his little limbs were free from pain and his little stomach was not annoyed by internal troubles. He kicked, and crowed, and sputtered, when his mother took him, and put up his little fingers to clutch her hair, and was to her as a young god upon the earth. Nothing in the world had ever been created so beautiful, so joyous, so satisfactory, so divine!
Hearing the miner's footsteps, the baby would put up his arms and crow.
When your rooster crows at the break o' dawn / Look out your window and I'll be gone.
gloss: To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He’s been crowing all day about winning the game of cards.
Touting its sponsorship of local engineering and sustainability programs, Amazon crows about such “investments” as its dog park, playing fields, art installations, and Buckyball-reminiscent domical gardens.
Another of my favorite dishes, the Asian chicken salad, was inspired by a skit by comedian Margaret Cho (“This is not the salad of my people…” she crows).
gloss: To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: as the crow flies
crowbait
crowberry
crowbill
crow cage
crowdom
croweater
crowflower
crowfoot
crowkeeper
crowlike
crow-line
crowly
crow moon
crow pheasant
crow pose
crow quill
crow scarer
crow's foot
crow shark
crow-shrike
crow-silk
crow's nest
crowstep
crowstone
crow-tit
crowtoe
crow to pick
crow to pluck
crow to pull
crow-trodden
early crow
eat boiled crow
eat crow
fruitcrow
gallicrow
gorcrow
hoarse as a crow
holy crow
John crow
king crow
paradise-crow
pig's-crow
rain crow
scarecrow
stone the crows
storm crow
Town Crow
water crow
cockscrow
crower
crowingly
crow over
outcrow
overcrow
Translations:
lang: Central Bikol
word: turaok
lang: Breton
word: kan
lang: Bulgarian
word: кукури́гане
roman: kukurígane
lang: Czech
word: kokrhání
lang: Czech
word: zakokrhání
lang: Dutch
word: hanengekraai
lang: Finnish
word: kieunta
lang: Finnish
word: kiekuminen
lang: French
word: chant
lang: Georgian
word: ყივილი
roman: q̇ivili
lang: German
word: Krähen
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌷𐍂𐌿𐌺
roman: hrūk
lang: Greek
word: λάλημα
roman: lálima
lang: Hungarian
word: kukorékol
lang: Icelandic
word: hanagal
lang: Ilocano
word: taraok
lang: Macedonian
word: кукуригање
roman: kukuriganje
lang: Macedonian
word: кукурикање
roman: kukurikanje
lang: Macedonian
word: кукурика
roman: kukurika
lang: Macedonian
word: кукурига
roman: kukuriga
lang: Māori
word: tekekō
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: vēukōuhláng
lang: Persian
word: قوقولیقوقو
roman: ququli-ququ
lang: Polish
word: pianie
lang: Portuguese
word: canto
lang: Punjabi
word: ਬਾਂਗ
lang: Punjabi
word: بان٘گ
roman: bāṉg
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: gairm
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: крик
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: krik
lang: Spanish
word: cacareo
lang: Swedish
word: gala
lang: Tagalog
word: tilaok
lang: Welsh
word: caniad