单词 | crowing |
释义 | crowingn. The action of crow v.1 1. literal. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > cry or call gredingc1275 crowingc1386 call1584 note1594 ramage?1614 honking1844 bird call1880 c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 34 Wel sikerer was his crowyng in his logge Than is a clokke. 1483 Cath. Angl. 83 A Crowynge of rauens, cra, vel crocitatus. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 138 It faded on the crowing of the Cocke. 1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 245 The faint crowing of a cock was now heard. 2. transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] yelpc888 yelpinga1050 roosingc1175 boastc1300 avauntment1303 avauntry1330 vauntingc1340 bragc1360 avauntingc1380 boastingc1380 avauntance1393 angarda1400 bragging1399 vaunta1400 crackingc1440 crackc1450 crowing1484 jactancea1492 vaunterya1492 bragancea1500 gloriation?1504 blasta1513 vousting1535 braggery?1571 jactation1576 self-boasting1577 thrasonism1596 braggartry1598 braggartism1601 jactancy1623 braggadocianism1624 blazing1628 jactitation1632 word-braving1642 rodomontadea1648 fanfaronade1652 superbiloquence1656 vapouring1656 rodomontading1661 blow1684 goster1703 gasconade1709 gasconading1709 vauntingness1727 braggadocioa1734 Gasconism1744 Gascoigny1754 braggade1763 gostering1763 penny trumpet1783 cockalorum?a1792 boastfulness1810 vauntage1818 bull-flesh1820 blowing1840 vauntiness1851 kompology1854 loud-mouthing1858 skite1860 gabbing1869 mouth1891 buck1895 skiting1916 boosterism1926 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope 133 Ouer moche talkyng letteth and to moche crowyng smarteth. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 34 Two years can hardly slip awai without sum crowing on the on part and more overcrowing on the other. 1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 20 Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021). crowingadj. That crows. In Pathology, applied to the sound made in inspiration in whooping-cough and croup. ΚΠ a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 68 Ere crowing Heraulds summon up the daye. 1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 471/1 The joyous, crowing laugh of that little creature. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth x, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 297 Her infant..already black in the face, and uttering the gasping crowing sound, which gives the popular name to the complaint. 1841 A. Tweedie Libr. Med. III. 61 Laryngismus Stridulus..the Crowing Disease. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1386adj.a1653 |
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