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crowing

[ US /ˈkɹoʊɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈə‍ʊɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. exhibiting self-importance
    big talk
NOUN
  1. 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

  • He's always crowing about his latest triumph.
  • Ben rushed to his father, crowing with pleasure.
  • He was crowing with joy because he had run 8 miles yesterday as opposed to my paltry one quarter.
  • She won the competition and won't stop crowing .
  • The smell of wood smoke, crowing of roosters and shanty, tin roofed housing took me back to that Africa of long ago. Chiapas as Bubba - Imperfection Personified
  • Those Australians are bad enough when they are crowing about their inevitable sporting victories over these islands; now they will be insufferable.
  • He then goes on to do his own ‘crowing’, that the new treaty is regarded by the French, as a triumph of British negotiation, and that is why they are complaining.
  • Here's a play list for your listening pleasure, consisting of a Turkish long crowing breed, the Denizli, followed by a Koeyoshi (good crower in Japanese) and the Tomaru (black crower). Boing Boing
  • Very few composers in this period have wasted time in crowing over the internal contradictions of their predecessors.
  • We were woken at dawn by a cock crowing repeatedly.
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