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▪ I. crowing, vbl. n.|ˈkrəʊɪŋ|
[f. crow v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb crow.
1. lit.
c1386Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 34 Wel sikerer was his crowyng in his logge Than is a clokke. 1483Cath. Angl. 83 A Crowynge of rauens, cra, vel crocitatus. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. i. 157 It faded on the crowing of the Cocke. 1832W. Irving Alhambra II. 245 The faint crowing of a cock was now heard.
2. transf. and fig.
1483Caxton æsop 133 Ouer moche talkyng letteth and to moche crowyng smarteth. 1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 34 Two years can hardly slip awai without sum crowing on the on part and more overcrowing on the other. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Fate Wks. (Bohn) II. 317 Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are.
▪ II. ˈcrowing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That crows. In Path., applied to the sound made in inspiration in hooping-cough and croup.
c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 68 Ere crowing Heraulds summon up the daye. 1824Blackw. Mag. XV. 471/1 The joyous, crowing laugh of that little creature. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxii, Her infant..already black in the face, and uttering the gasping crowing sound, which gives the popular name to the complaint. 1841Tweedie Libr. Pract. Med. III. 61 Laryngismus Stridulus..the Crowing Disease.
Comb.1710E. Ward British Hudibras 123 They'd been so crowing sure Of winning All. |