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Synonyms for crow

Grammar : Verb
Spell : kroh
Phonetic Transcription : kroÊŠ

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Définition of crow

Origin :
  • Old English crawe, imitative of bird's cry. Phrase eat crow is perhaps based on the notion that the bird is edible when boiled but hardly agreeable; first attested 1851, American English, but said to date to War of 1812 (Walter Etecroue turns up 1361 in the Calendar of Letter Books of the City of London). Crow's foot "wrinkle around the corner of the eye" is late 14c. Phrase as the crow flies first recorded 1800.
  • verb brag, exult
Example sentences :
  • Methinks that Gascony is too small a cock to crow so lustily.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • If anything should happen, the call will be three croaks of a crow.
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • She is not so infallible a markswoman, but that she might shoot at a crow and kill a pigeon.
  • Extract from : « Maid Marian » by Thomas Love Peacock
  • His flight to the crow's nest had been an effort to escape its fury, but it had followed him there.
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
  • This she did for some time, until the cock in the village began to crow.
  • Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
  • The Crow had got too much of a start, they said, considering that the wind was in her favour.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • Anyhow, I think I have been wise to risk it, and follow the Crow.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • Parry, too, clapped his hands, and felt as if he wanted to crow.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 » by Various
  • She bore it to the kitchen, read it all, and returned to crow vaingloriously.
  • Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • And when the hat turned around there was a face under it as black as a crow.
  • Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln

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