CROWING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crowing mean? 

• CROWING (noun)
  The noun CROWING has 1 sense:

1. an instance of boastful talk

  Familiarity information: CROWING used as a noun is very rare.

• CROWING (adjective)
  The adjective CROWING has 1 sense:

1. exhibiting self-importance

  Familiarity information: CROWING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROWING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An instance of boastful talk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

brag; bragging; crow; crowing; gasconade; line-shooting; vaporing

Context example:

whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade

Hypernyms ("crowing" is a kind of...):

boast; boasting; jactitation; self-praise (speaking of yourself in superlatives)

Derivation:

crow (express pleasure verbally)

crow (dwell on with satisfaction)

• CROWING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exhibiting self-importance

Synonyms:

big; boastful; braggart; bragging; braggy; cock-a-hoop; crowing; self-aggrandising; self-aggrandizing

Context example:

big talk

Similar:

proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)

 Context examples 

“Ho, ho!” cried he with a high crowing laugh, “it is not the head upon my shoulders that I think of. Cospetto! no. It is the head under my arm which you have preserved.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first few months were very happy ones, and Beth often used to look round, and say How beautiful this is! as they all sat together in her sunny room, the babies kicking and crowing on the floor, mother and sisters working near, and father reading, in his pleasant voice, from the wise old books which seemed rich in good and comfortable words, as applicable now as when written centuries ago, a little chapel, where a paternal priest taught his flock the hard lessons all must learn, trying to show them that hope can comfort love, and faith make resignation possible.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They went to bed quite early and slept soundly until daylight, when they were awakened by the crowing of a green cock that lived in the back yard of the Palace, and the cackling of a hen that had laid a green egg.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

To this Sir Nigel answered with the romances of Sir Eglamour, and of Sir Isumbras, and so through the long winter night they sat by the crackling wood-fire answering each other's songs until the crowing cocks joined in their concert.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)