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单词 crowing
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crowingn.

/ˈkrəʊɪŋ/
Etymology: < crow v.1 + -ing suffix1.
The action of crow v.1
1. literal.
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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > cry or call
gredingc1275
crowingc1386
call1584
note1594
ramage?1614
honking1844
bird call1880
c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 34 Wel sikerer was his crowyng in his logge Than is a clokke.
1483 Cath. Angl. 83 A Crowynge of rauens, cra, vel crocitatus.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 138 It faded on the crowing of the Cocke.
1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 245 The faint crowing of a cock was now heard.
2. transferred and figurative.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun]
yelpc888
yelpinga1050
roosingc1175
boastc1300
avauntment1303
avauntry1330
vauntingc1340
bragc1360
avauntingc1380
boastingc1380
avauntance1393
angarda1400
bragging1399
vaunta1400
crackingc1440
crackc1450
crowing1484
jactancea1492
vaunterya1492
bragancea1500
gloriation?1504
blasta1513
vousting1535
braggery?1571
jactation1576
self-boasting1577
thrasonism1596
braggartry1598
braggartism1601
jactancy1623
braggadocianism1624
blazing1628
jactitation1632
word-braving1642
rodomontadea1648
fanfaronade1652
superbiloquence1656
vapouring1656
rodomontading1661
blow1684
goster1703
gasconade1709
gasconading1709
vauntingness1727
braggadocioa1734
Gasconism1744
Gascoigny1754
braggade1763
gostering1763
penny trumpet1783
cockalorum?a1792
boastfulness1810
vauntage1818
bull-flesh1820
blowing1840
vauntiness1851
kompology1854
loud-mouthing1858
skite1860
gabbing1869
mouth1891
buck1895
skiting1916
boosterism1926
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 133 Ouer moche talkyng letteth and to moche crowyng smarteth.
1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 34 Two years can hardly slip awai without sum crowing on the on part and more overcrowing on the other.
1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 20 Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

crowingadj.

Etymology: formed as crow v.1 + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcrowing.
That crows. In Pathology, applied to the sound made in inspiration in whooping-cough and croup.
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a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 68 Ere crowing Heraulds summon up the daye.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 471/1 The joyous, crowing laugh of that little creature.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth x, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 297 Her infant..already black in the face, and uttering the gasping crowing sound, which gives the popular name to the complaint.
1841 A. Tweedie Libr. Med. III. 61 Laryngismus Stridulus..the Crowing Disease.
in combination.1710 E. Ward 4th Pt. Vulgus Britannicus 123 They'd been so crowing sure Of winning All.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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