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1. Exhibiting self-importance
   "crowing talk";
   - boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, big, cock-a-hoop, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising [Brit]

1. An instance of boastful talk
   "his crowing is worse than his fight";
   - brag, bragging, crow, vaporing [US], line-shooting, gasconade [archaic], vapouring [Brit, Cdn]

1. Dwell on with satisfaction
   - gloat, triumph
    
2. Express pleasure verbally
   "She crowed with joy"
    
3. Utter shrill sounds
   "The cocks crowed all morning"

Derived forms: crowings

See also: proud

Type of: blow, bluster, boast, boasting, brag, emit, gas [informal], gasconade [archaic], jactitation, let loose, let out, self-praise, shoot a line [informal], skite [Austral, NZ, informal], swash [archaic], tout, utter, vaunt

Encyclopedia: Crowing