crowing

Other forms of crowing

plural

crowings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crowing

What does crowing mean?

crowing means "an instance of boastful talk". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crowing?

crowing has 2 syllables: cro-wing. The stress falls on "cro". In IPA it is /ˈkɹoʊɪŋ/.

What is another word for crowing?

Close synonyms include brag, bragging, crow, vaporing, line-shooting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crowing a common word?

crowing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.