Other forms: crows, crowing
A crow is a big all-black bird with a harsh call. A crow on the fence, crows in the field, as the crow flies.
Crows make and use tools, recognise individual human faces and hold something like grudges — they are among the cleverest animals tested. As the crow flies means in a straight line. To crow about something means to boast. Note that the word is imitative of the call.
1nouncrowA big all-black bird with a harsh call.
“A crow sat on the fence, cawing loudly at the cat.”
2verbboastTo boast about something.
“He crowed about his victory for days, which annoyed everyone.”
crow is a bird.
Old English crawe is imitative of the bird's call. The verb to crow, of a cock, comes from the same sound.
Middle English
crowe
English, today
crow
Built from
From Middle English crowe. From Middle English crowe, from Old English crāwe, from Proto-West Germanic krāā, from Proto-Germanic krēǭ (compare West Frisian krie, Dutch kraai, German Krähe), from krēaną (“to crow”). See below. Back-formation from crowbar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA