noun
Idioms 1.
the crop of a bird or insect.
2.
the stomach of an animal.
3.
stick in one's craw, to cause considerable or abiding resentment; rankle: She said I was pompous, and that really stuck in my craw.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a less common word for crop |
| 2. | the stomach of an animal |
| 3. | informal stick in one's craw, stick in one's throat to be difficult, or against one's conscience, for one to accept, utter, or believe |
| [C14: related to Middle High German krage, Middle Dutch crāghe neck, Icelandic kragi collar] | |
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Craw
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
craw
O.E. *cræg "throat," a Gmc. word of obscure origin.
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American Heritage
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Example sentences
They were, however, fascinated by her craw and gizzard still full of grain and rocks to grind it.
It's really the common culture stuff that sticks in my craw.
So many people have been puzzled as to why this case has stuck in my craw all these years.
But every now and then there was something in one of the plays that stuck in my craw, or made me turn away from the page.
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