crow
crow is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance.
- intransitive verb. To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
- intransitive verb. To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
- intransitive verb. A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw.
- intransitive verb. A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
- intransitive verb. The cry of the cock. See Crow, v. i., 1.
- intransitive verb. The mesentery of a beast; -- so called by butchers.
- noun. black birds having a raucous call
- noun. a Siouan language spoken by the Crow
- noun. an instance of boastful talk
"his brag is worse than his fight"
"whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
- noun. the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it)
- noun. a small quadrilateral constellation in the southern hemisphere near Virgo
- noun. a member of the Siouan people formerly living in eastern Montana
- verb. express pleasure verbally
"She crowed with joy"
- verb. utter shrill sounds
"The cocks crowed all morning"
- verb. dwell on with satisfaction
Synonyms
brag, bragging, crowing, gasconade, vaporing, corvus, gloat, triumph
Common word forms
crows, crowed, crower, crowing
Words from these letters
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