Synonym Game

crowing

[kroh] Origin

crow

2[kroh] verb, crowed or, for 1, (especially British), crew; crowed; crow·ing; noun
verb (used without object)
1.
to utter the characteristic cry of a rooster.
2.
to gloat, boast, or exult (often followed by over).
3.
to utter an inarticulate cry of pleasure, as an infant does.
noun
4.
the characteristic cry of a rooster.
5.
an inarticulate cry of pleasure.

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Crowing is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English crowen, Old English crāwan; cognate with Dutch kraaien, German krähen; see crow1

crow·er, noun
crow·ing·ly, adverb


2. vaunt, brag.

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crow
O.E. crawian "make a loud noise like a crow;" sense of "exult in triumph" is 1522, perhaps in part because the English crow is a carrion-eater.
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