Crow1
nounPlural Crows, Plural crows krəʊkroʊ
1A member of a North American people inhabiting eastern Montana.
- Food was plentiful, the weather was comfortable, horses were regaining their fat, and spirits were high among the Crows.
- We arrived at Fort Peck and learned that our Indian visitors were a war party of Crows going to fight the Sioux.
- Men from other camps even searched out the White Temple camp just to witness his routine, which was now the talk of all the Crows.
- Another mulatto trapper to achieve distinction among the Crows, at least in his own telling, was James P. Beckwourth.
- For Crows the process of relating a narrative is always interactive.
- The Crows were an offshoot of the Hidatsas, and they made summer journeys east to trade with the descendants of their forebears.
- The word traveled fast from camp to camp, from band to band until it seemed that all that the Crows talked about was Rabbit.
- These groups included the Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa, Pawnee and the Sioux Nations.
- For more than half a century, the land that the Bozemen Trail would cross was made busy by Crows and white trappers and traders, not by Lakotas.
- The Crows welcomed American traders and tolerated American trappers.
- In September 1833 he led his brigade of thirty men and one hundred horses southeast along the foot of the Bighorns, intending to hunt up a Crow village to obtain permission to trap beaver on the Tongue and Powder Rivers.
- The Crows sold the purloined furs to Samuel Tulloch at Fort Cass.
- In 1833 the American Fur Company traded with the Crows at Fort Cass, located at the mouth of the Bighorn River.
2mass noun The Siouan language of the Crow, with about 5,000 speakers.
adjective krəʊkroʊ
Relating to the Crow or their language.
- A Lieutenant Luther Hare had ridden ahead of the column with some Crow scouts.
- ‘The New and Old Testaments in the Absaroki or Crow Indian Language by a Missionary of the Society of Jesus’ came into the possession of the Montana Historical Society in August 2004.
- As Clark and his party explored the Yellowstone, a Crow raiding party stole the horses belonging to a detail led by Sgt. Pryor.
Origin
Suggested by French gens de corbeaux, translating Siouan apsáaloke 'crow people'.
crow2
nounPlural Crows, Plural crows krəʊkroʊ
1A large perching bird with mostly glossy black plumage, a heavy bill, and a raucous voice.
Genus Corvus, family Corvidae (the crow family): several species, including the carrion crow (C. corone) and the American crow (C. brachyrhynchos). The crow family also includes the ravens, jays, magpies, choughs, and nutcrackers
- We mostly saw the usual sparrows, doves, crows, chickadees, and titmice. Tons of Blue Jay are in flight right now as they are involved in a migration of their own.
- Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
- Losses occur, however, when the unattended eggs are taken by crows or ravens, or when nesting birds are disturbed by humans.
- Large black birds like crows and grackles are often referred to as trash birds.
- Indeed, just now there are too many acorns for even such greedy birds as crows and magpies.
- But periods of high heat and drought send such common urban-dwelling species as crows, blue jays and robins out of the city in search of fresh water.
- At nesting time the parents become bold and pugnacious attacking crows, magpies, cuckoos and kestrels crossing their territory.
- Blue jays and crows rob smaller birds' nests, often those of robins and catbirds, of both eggs and young, while hawks may steal the same from the crows and jays!
- It is the habit of crows to perch like sentinels on the tops of isolated trees, where they can see what is going on in all directions.
- Birds - blackbirds and thrushes, robins, starlings, rooks and crows, jays, ducks, seagulls and owls will eat slugs
- Great Horned Owls do not build their own nests, but use nests built by hawks, crows, magpies, herons, or other large birds.
- He said the proliferation of Corvids birds like grey crows, magpies and rooks could be directly linked to the decline in songbirds in the area.
- The virus is primarily a disease of wild birds, particularly crows, blue jays, and birds of prey, and is transmitted by mosquitoes to horses and humans.
- The airport attracts corvids, rooks, crows, lapwings and wood pigeons among others.
- Just now the skies are busy with birds; rooks and crows grouping and re-grouping in ragged formation, starlings showing off their flock skills, and swifts silver-arrowing round and round.
- The brain-to-body ratio of crows, ravens and magpies equals that of dolphins and nearly matches humans.
- The corvines - crows, rooks, jays, magpies and jackdaws - are relentless stealers of other birds' eggs and chicks.
- It had long been used in Europe to kill predators and ‘noxious’ birds such as crows and magpies.
- Eagles, vultures, penguins, ravens, crows, doves, and ostriches are just a few of the birds that do double time as species and symbols.
- The corvids of North America consist of one species of jackdaw, four crows, two ravens, one nutcracker, two magpies, and ten species of jays.
2derogatory, informal An old or ugly woman.
to my two sons I am still just the old crow- The doors opened and two aged citizens emerged, a withered old crow and a thin old duffer.
- I still remember about him actually agreeing to go on a date with that bald, old crow, and I definitely still remembered that I was angry.
- ‘I'll phone our favourite old crow Edith then,’ Grandma relented.
- At other booths, the photographers allowed participants to reject their first photo in favor of a more flattering one, but the old crow and her minion hurried me off the set.
- Hah, that old crow could forbid me all she wants, but I won't give up my archery.
Phrases
as the crow flies
In a straight line.
Easingwold was 22 miles away as the crow flies- Although this is only some 20 km. from Nîmes as the crow flies, the aqueduct itself followed a course of around 50 km., in order to ensure a steady gradient for the water on its way to the city.
- The headquarters of Hatteras Yachts is located in New Bern, NC, 90 miles inland, as the crow flies, from the cape of the same name that is notorious for its treacherous seas and numerous shipwrecks.
- To him the barren mountains and sagebrush flats of Nevada's interior must seem like another planet compared to the green splendor of Lake Tahoe, though they are only about 30 or 40 miles apart as the crow flies.
- It was shortly after 8pm on December 7, a cold, dry, almost still night, when two emergency calls came through to Lothian and Borders fire brigade headquarters at Lauriston Place, about a mile as the crow flies from the fire.
- The distance is less than seven miles as the crow flies, but is 13 miles by water, because of the twists and turns of the river.
- At the end of the day, we intend moving only 20 miles away, as the crow flies.
- By the time we reached Roman Road, only half a mile as the crow flies from our starting point, the bus was jam-packed full and sailing past the waiting queues.
- Somehow this is all tied in to the treacherous mountain trails, where a mile as the crow flies can take twenty miles of switchbacks.
- But we're only about 45 miles, as the crow flies, away from New Orleans.
- The proposed site is eight-and-a-half kilometres from the airport as the crow flies, and it is first-class flat agricultural land with three rivers running through the site.
eat crow
informal Be humiliated by having to admit one's defeats or mistakes.
the so-called experts will be eating crow tonight- I smiled on the inside, glad that Sam had to eat crow.
- It will be nice to see you eating crow in your midseason report.
- And if I go overboard, I eat crow and apologize and beg for mercy.
- If by the 31 of December of this year, it hasn't happened, we will gladly eat crow.
- Every time I say I never want to hear another concept record about somebody's failed marriage, one comes along that's lovely enough to make me to eat crow.
- There, he needs to eat crow, apologise for his mistakes and make clear that he is turning a new page.
- I guarantee that I'll be back winning shows again, and then all the doubters are going to have to eat crow for dinner.
- But now the nutrition nay-sayers may have to eat crow.
- You will be eating crow for following a leader who has no intention of following through with his promises.
- We're having to eat crow, is what we're doing, and we might as well admit it.
Origin
Old English crāwe, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch kraai and German Krähe, also to crow2.
Rhymes
aglow, ago, alow, although, apropos, art nouveau, Bamako, Bardot, beau, Beaujolais Nouveau, below, bestow, blow, bo, Boileau, bons mots, Bordeaux, Bow, bravo, bro, cachepot, cheerio, Coe, Defoe, de trop, doe, doh, dos-à-dos, do-si-do, dough, dzo, Flo, floe, flow, foe, foreknow, foreshow, forgo, Foucault, froe, glow, go, good-oh, go-slow, grow, gung-ho, Heathrow, heave-ho, heigh-ho, hello, ho, hoe, ho-ho, jo, Joe, kayo, know, lo, low, maillot, malapropos, Marceau, mho, Miró, mo, Mohs, Monroe, mot, mow, Munro, no, Noh, no-show, oh, oho, outgo, outgrow, owe, Perrault, pho, po, Poe, pro, quid pro quo, reshow, righto, roe, Rouault, row, Rowe, sew, shew, show, sloe, slow, snow, so, soh, sow, status quo, stow, Stowe, strow, tally-ho, though, throw, tic-tac-toe, to-and-fro, toe, touch-and-go, tow, trow, undergo, undersow, voe, whacko, whoa, wo, woe, Xuzhou, yo, yo-ho-ho, Zhengzhou, Zhou
crow3
verbcrowed, crew, crows krəʊkroʊ
[no object]1(of a cock) utter its characteristic loud cry.
she was awakened in the mornings by cocks crowing- Funny, I thought normal roosters crowed in the morning.
- The loony rooster next door insists on crowing at all hours.
- There are dozens of young hares running about aimlessly in the fields while young cock pheasants are crowing their heads off in every garden and potato patch.
- ‘This is a village that never sleeps,’ she said, as a rooster crowed in the background.
- The morning greeted us with an early sun rise, the village rooster crowing and the swish of a broom sweeping the sand court yard outside.
- The cold wind swept the dawn, and the roosters crowed at a distance.
- By dawn, mysterious roosters would crow but never show themselves.
- She could hear about two, no, three different roosters crowing, sunlight just barely peeking through her window.
- Here you can see women washing clothes in the river, children chasing each other in narrow lanes, chickens crowing and dogs barking at strangers.
- Finally a rooster flew to the top and decided to crow around midnight.
- In both traditions the white rooster, which crows at dawn to dispel the darkness of night, is highly esteemed.
- When the rooster crowed to greet the morning, Ben thought he sounded awfully close by but to find the fowl on the foot of his bed was closer than he thought!
- Every once in a while a dog barked or a rooster crowed.
- We always awoke to the sound of a cock crowing or a bird chirping and when we looked outside, we saw nature in all of her morning glory!
- At the ranch the roosters started crowing at 4am just a few feet from my head, shocking me to consciousness.
- Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously.
- When we first got them, Bill and I spent many a morning lying in bed, laughing after having been awakened by our young rooster's attempts at crowing.
- The rooster crowed, as if it wanted more scraps of food to eat.
- As dawn approaches and the light level rises, you will hear roosters crowing and the night ambient sounds will die away.
- Instead of alarm clocks, there is a rooster crowing on a rooftop nearby.
squawk, screech, hoot, cry, caw, croak2(of a person) express great pride or triumph, especially in a tone of gloating satisfaction.
Ruby crowed with delightavoid crowing about your successwith direct speech ‘I knew you 'd be back,’ she crowed- She will crow in delight when she spots either one of them.
- In fact, he's crowing and preening in the spotlight that he's brought to bear on his actions.
- She literally crowed with pleasure, declaring that now she understood my political blindness.
- Perhaps you'll even crow when his shoelaces get caught in the escalator.
- William crowed as he jumped and caught the flying Frisbee before Becky's teammate.
- You had to dig nuggets out from him about his career because he hated it to seem as if he was crowing but this was one incident he would talk about.
- My normal, nice, reserved Captain and partner was crowing.
- He was crowing with joy because he had run 8 miles yesterday as opposed to my paltry one quarter.
boast, brag, trumpet, show off, bluster, swagger, swank, gloat, be smug, congratulate oneself, preen oneself, pride oneself, pat oneself on the back, sing one's own praisesglory in, exult in, triumph over, parade, flauntinformal talk big, blow hard, rub it in, lay it on thick, shoot one's mouth off, blow one's own trumpetAustralian/New Zealand informal skiteliterary vaunt, roisterarchaic rodomontade, gasconade
nounPlural Crows, Plural crows krəʊkroʊ
1usually in singular The cry of a cock.
- Following sunrise comes the clanging sound of scores of church bells, coupled with the crow of roosters from the adjacent Moslem Quarter.
- Beware of the bark of a dog or crow of a cock at night, for they signify death.
- I am up like the cock's crow on Wednesdays to get ready for the bus, which picks me up at my door.
2A sound made by a person expressing great pride or triumph.
she gave a little crow of triumph- They cut past their rival by mere feet and she took one hand off the wheel long enough to doff her hat and wave it with a crow of triumph.
- She is frisky and good humoured like a bouncy Labrador, gushing with anecdotes punctuated by a laugh, which is a cross between a joyous cackle and a happy crow.
- I let out a mental crow of delight as I discover that I can control where I'm going.
- He crows in triumph, and both of us pull as hard as we can and the pipe gives way as half the toilet breaks off and lands on the floor.
Origin
Old English crāwan, of West Germanic origin; related to German krähen, also to crow1; ultimately imitative.
Crow1
nounkrōkroʊ
1A member of a North American people inhabiting eastern Montana.
- These groups included the Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa, Pawnee and the Sioux Nations.
- For Crows the process of relating a narrative is always interactive.
- We arrived at Fort Peck and learned that our Indian visitors were a war party of Crows going to fight the Sioux.
- The Crows welcomed American traders and tolerated American trappers.
- The Crows were an offshoot of the Hidatsas, and they made summer journeys east to trade with the descendants of their forebears.
- Another mulatto trapper to achieve distinction among the Crows, at least in his own telling, was James P. Beckwourth.
- Men from other camps even searched out the White Temple camp just to witness his routine, which was now the talk of all the Crows.
- The word traveled fast from camp to camp, from band to band until it seemed that all that the Crows talked about was Rabbit.
- For more than half a century, the land that the Bozemen Trail would cross was made busy by Crows and white trappers and traders, not by Lakotas.
- In September 1833 he led his brigade of thirty men and one hundred horses southeast along the foot of the Bighorns, intending to hunt up a Crow village to obtain permission to trap beaver on the Tongue and Powder Rivers.
- In 1833 the American Fur Company traded with the Crows at Fort Cass, located at the mouth of the Bighorn River.
- Food was plentiful, the weather was comfortable, horses were regaining their fat, and spirits were high among the Crows.
- The Crows sold the purloined furs to Samuel Tulloch at Fort Cass.
2The Siouan language of the Crow.
adjectivekrōkroʊ
Relating to the Crow or their language.
- As Clark and his party explored the Yellowstone, a Crow raiding party stole the horses belonging to a detail led by Sgt. Pryor.
- ‘The New and Old Testaments in the Absaroki or Crow Indian Language by a Missionary of the Society of Jesus’ came into the possession of the Montana Historical Society in August 2004.
- A Lieutenant Luther Hare had ridden ahead of the column with some Crow scouts.
Origin
Suggested by French gens de corbeaux, translating Siouan apsáaloke ‘crow people’.
crow2
nounkroʊkrō
1A large perching bird with mostly glossy black plumage, a heavy bill, and a raucous voice.
Genus Corvus, family Corvidae (thecrow family): several species, including theAmerican crow (C. brachyrhynchos) and thecarrion crow (C. corone). The crow family also includes the ravens, jays, magpies, choughs, and nutcrackers
- It is the habit of crows to perch like sentinels on the tops of isolated trees, where they can see what is going on in all directions.
- The brain-to-body ratio of crows, ravens and magpies equals that of dolphins and nearly matches humans.
- He said the proliferation of Corvids birds like grey crows, magpies and rooks could be directly linked to the decline in songbirds in the area.
- Losses occur, however, when the unattended eggs are taken by crows or ravens, or when nesting birds are disturbed by humans.
- It had long been used in Europe to kill predators and ‘noxious’ birds such as crows and magpies.
- The corvines - crows, rooks, jays, magpies and jackdaws - are relentless stealers of other birds' eggs and chicks.
- But periods of high heat and drought send such common urban-dwelling species as crows, blue jays and robins out of the city in search of fresh water.
- Just now the skies are busy with birds; rooks and crows grouping and re-grouping in ragged formation, starlings showing off their flock skills, and swifts silver-arrowing round and round.
- Blue jays and crows rob smaller birds' nests, often those of robins and catbirds, of both eggs and young, while hawks may steal the same from the crows and jays!
- We mostly saw the usual sparrows, doves, crows, chickadees, and titmice. Tons of Blue Jay are in flight right now as they are involved in a migration of their own.
- The airport attracts corvids, rooks, crows, lapwings and wood pigeons among others.
- Indeed, just now there are too many acorns for even such greedy birds as crows and magpies.
- Eagles, vultures, penguins, ravens, crows, doves, and ostriches are just a few of the birds that do double time as species and symbols.
- Great Horned Owls do not build their own nests, but use nests built by hawks, crows, magpies, herons, or other large birds.
- The corvids of North America consist of one species of jackdaw, four crows, two ravens, one nutcracker, two magpies, and ten species of jays.
- Birds - blackbirds and thrushes, robins, starlings, rooks and crows, jays, ducks, seagulls and owls will eat slugs
- At nesting time the parents become bold and pugnacious attacking crows, magpies, cuckoos and kestrels crossing their territory.
- The virus is primarily a disease of wild birds, particularly crows, blue jays, and birds of prey, and is transmitted by mosquitoes to horses and humans.
- Large black birds like crows and grackles are often referred to as trash birds.
- Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen.
2derogatory, informal A woman, especially an old or ugly one.
- I still remember about him actually agreeing to go on a date with that bald, old crow, and I definitely still remembered that I was angry.
- At other booths, the photographers allowed participants to reject their first photo in favor of a more flattering one, but the old crow and her minion hurried me off the set.
- The doors opened and two aged citizens emerged, a withered old crow and a thin old duffer.
- Hah, that old crow could forbid me all she wants, but I won't give up my archery.
- ‘I'll phone our favourite old crow Edith then,’ Grandma relented.
3the CrowThe constellation Corvus.
- The constellation of Crater, the Cup or Bowl, lies on the back of Hydra next to Corvus the crow.
Phrases
as the crow flies
In a straight line.
Easingwold was 22 miles away as the crow flies- To him the barren mountains and sagebrush flats of Nevada's interior must seem like another planet compared to the green splendor of Lake Tahoe, though they are only about 30 or 40 miles apart as the crow flies.
- It was shortly after 8pm on December 7, a cold, dry, almost still night, when two emergency calls came through to Lothian and Borders fire brigade headquarters at Lauriston Place, about a mile as the crow flies from the fire.
- Although this is only some 20 km. from Nîmes as the crow flies, the aqueduct itself followed a course of around 50 km., in order to ensure a steady gradient for the water on its way to the city.
- By the time we reached Roman Road, only half a mile as the crow flies from our starting point, the bus was jam-packed full and sailing past the waiting queues.
- The distance is less than seven miles as the crow flies, but is 13 miles by water, because of the twists and turns of the river.
- Somehow this is all tied in to the treacherous mountain trails, where a mile as the crow flies can take twenty miles of switchbacks.
- The proposed site is eight-and-a-half kilometres from the airport as the crow flies, and it is first-class flat agricultural land with three rivers running through the site.
- At the end of the day, we intend moving only 20 miles away, as the crow flies.
- The headquarters of Hatteras Yachts is located in New Bern, NC, 90 miles inland, as the crow flies, from the cape of the same name that is notorious for its treacherous seas and numerous shipwrecks.
- But we're only about 45 miles, as the crow flies, away from New Orleans.
eat crow
informal Be humiliated by having to admit one's defeats or mistakes.
- But now the nutrition nay-sayers may have to eat crow.
- There, he needs to eat crow, apologise for his mistakes and make clear that he is turning a new page.
- Every time I say I never want to hear another concept record about somebody's failed marriage, one comes along that's lovely enough to make me to eat crow.
- I smiled on the inside, glad that Sam had to eat crow.
- It will be nice to see you eating crow in your midseason report.
- I guarantee that I'll be back winning shows again, and then all the doubters are going to have to eat crow for dinner.
- You will be eating crow for following a leader who has no intention of following through with his promises.
- We're having to eat crow, is what we're doing, and we might as well admit it.
- If by the 31 of December of this year, it hasn't happened, we will gladly eat crow.
- And if I go overboard, I eat crow and apologize and beg for mercy.
Origin
Old English crāwe, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch kraai and German Krähe, also to crow.
crow3
verbkroʊkrō
[no object]1(of a rooster) utter its characteristic loud cry.
- In both traditions the white rooster, which crows at dawn to dispel the darkness of night, is highly esteemed.
- The morning greeted us with an early sun rise, the village rooster crowing and the swish of a broom sweeping the sand court yard outside.
- Here you can see women washing clothes in the river, children chasing each other in narrow lanes, chickens crowing and dogs barking at strangers.
- Finally a rooster flew to the top and decided to crow around midnight.
- By dawn, mysterious roosters would crow but never show themselves.
- Every once in a while a dog barked or a rooster crowed.
- Flies buzzed, cockerels crowed, goats bleated and a chorus of dogs was howling furiously.
- Funny, I thought normal roosters crowed in the morning.
- When the rooster crowed to greet the morning, Ben thought he sounded awfully close by but to find the fowl on the foot of his bed was closer than he thought!
- As dawn approaches and the light level rises, you will hear roosters crowing and the night ambient sounds will die away.
- When we first got them, Bill and I spent many a morning lying in bed, laughing after having been awakened by our young rooster's attempts at crowing.
- ‘This is a village that never sleeps,’ she said, as a rooster crowed in the background.
- Instead of alarm clocks, there is a rooster crowing on a rooftop nearby.
- The loony rooster next door insists on crowing at all hours.
- We always awoke to the sound of a cock crowing or a bird chirping and when we looked outside, we saw nature in all of her morning glory!
- The rooster crowed, as if it wanted more scraps of food to eat.
- The cold wind swept the dawn, and the roosters crowed at a distance.
- She could hear about two, no, three different roosters crowing, sunlight just barely peeking through her window.
- There are dozens of young hares running about aimlessly in the fields while young cock pheasants are crowing their heads off in every garden and potato patch.
- At the ranch the roosters started crowing at 4am just a few feet from my head, shocking me to consciousness.
squawk, screech, hoot, cry, caw, croak- 1.1 (of a person) make a sound expressing a feeling of happiness or triumph.Ruby crowed with delight
- She will crow in delight when she spots either one of them.
- William crowed as he jumped and caught the flying Frisbee before Becky's teammate.
- You had to dig nuggets out from him about his career because he hated it to seem as if he was crowing but this was one incident he would talk about.
- He was crowing with joy because he had run 8 miles yesterday as opposed to my paltry one quarter.
- Perhaps you'll even crow when his shoelaces get caught in the escalator.
- She literally crowed with pleasure, declaring that now she understood my political blindness.
- In fact, he's crowing and preening in the spotlight that he's brought to bear on his actions.
- My normal, nice, reserved Captain and partner was crowing.
boast, brag, trumpet, show off, bluster, swagger, swank, gloat, be smug, congratulate oneself, preen oneself, pride oneself, pat oneself on the back, sing one's own praises - 1.2 Say something in a tone of gloating satisfaction.avoid crowing about your success“I knew you'd be back,” she crowed
- Why, wondered my friend, were women suddenly crowing about their ability to buy their own shoes when women have been entering the workplace in droves for over thirty years?
- The lie came early last year when he was strutting around like a banty rooster crowing about his massive tax cut bill.
- He is also a doctor, though he doesn't crow about the title.
- But then I shouldn't crow too much about my relative success.
- But still they keep crowing on about the possibilities that the summit holds.
- ‘That's the spirit,’ Morgan crowed, while Jo raised her eyebrows.
- They weren't crowing about his second, though.
- For years you've crowed about the company you built.
- I wouldn't crow too loudly over those stats if I were you.
- I would crow or gloat about it, but I know that it can start within the blink of an eye, so nothing but sympathy from me.
nounkroʊkrō
1usually in singular The cry of a rooster.
- Following sunrise comes the clanging sound of scores of church bells, coupled with the crow of roosters from the adjacent Moslem Quarter.
- I am up like the cock's crow on Wednesdays to get ready for the bus, which picks me up at my door.
- Beware of the bark of a dog or crow of a cock at night, for they signify death.
- 1.1 A sound made by a person expressing triumph or happiness.she gave a little crow of triumph
- She is frisky and good humoured like a bouncy Labrador, gushing with anecdotes punctuated by a laugh, which is a cross between a joyous cackle and a happy crow.
- They cut past their rival by mere feet and she took one hand off the wheel long enough to doff her hat and wave it with a crow of triumph.
- I let out a mental crow of delight as I discover that I can control where I'm going.
- He crows in triumph, and both of us pull as hard as we can and the pipe gives way as half the toilet breaks off and lands on the floor.
Origin
Old English crāwan, of West Germanic origin; related to German krähen, also to crow; ultimately imitative.