Word Meanings - CROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. "The cock had crown." Bayron. The morning cock crew loud. Shak. 2. To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. 3. To utter a sound expressive of

Additional info about word: CROW

1. To make the shrill sound characteristic of a cock, either in joy, gayety, or defiance. "The cock had crown." Bayron. The morning cock crew loud. Shak. 2. To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. 3. To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure. The sweetest little maid, That ever crowed for kisses. Tennyson. To crow over, to exult over a vanquished antagonist. Sennacherib crowing over poor Jerusalem. Bp. Hall.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CROW)

• Chuckle
• Grin
• crow
• cackle

Related words: (words related to CROW)

• CHUCKLEHEAD
  A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce. Knowles.
• CACKLE
  gackeln, gackern; all of imitative origin. Cf. Gagle, Cake to 1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. When every goose is cackling. Shak. 2. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
• CACKLER
  1. A fowl that cackles. 2. One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.
• CHUCKLEHEADED
  Having a large head; thickheaded; dull; stupid. Smart.
• CHUCKLE
  Etym: 1. To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck. Dryden. 2. To fondle; to cocker. Dryden.