[
US
/ˈkɹoʊɪŋ/
]
[ UK /kɹˈəʊɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈəʊɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
exhibiting self-importance
big talk
NOUN
-
an instance of boastful talk
his brag is worse than his fight
whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade
How To Use crowing In A Sentence
- She is laughing, crowing with delight as she sits there, her head a mass of golden curls in the honeyed sunlight.
- As dawn approaches and the light level rises, you will hear roosters crowing and the night ambient sounds will die away.
- The next morning, she woke up to the crowing of roosters at dawn, but barely lifted a hand or batted an eye to get up, returning to the lulling delight of slumber.
- Like a number of her other works (including Giuliana, Real Girl, and Green Rooster, whose titular fowl is shown crowing at a television set), this piece provides clues to her system of visual cueing.
- In fact, he's crowing and preening in the spotlight that he's brought to bear on his actions.
- There are complaints here among weekenders about cocks crowing in the early morning and cowpats on the road.
- LOL You Hillabots crowing about a trouncing must not know PR s History NOR the fact that winning in PR is about as meaningless as any win can be. Schneider: How did Clinton win big?
- 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.
- It can be agreed that the player or team that loses most games has to pay a forfeit, such as crawling under the table and crowing like a cockerel.
- Fresh eggs, the farm atmosphere, roosters crowing in the morning - the whole effect.