[
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
- 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.