crowly

adj
/ˈkɹəʊ.li/UK/ˈkɹoʊ.li/US

Etymology

From crow + -ly.

  1. inherited from crowe
  2. derived from *gerh₂-
  3. inherited from *krēaną
  4. inherited from *krāan
  5. inherited from crāwan
  6. inherited from crowen
  7. suffixed as crowly — “crow + ly

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling a crow or crows

    Of, relating to, or resembling a crow or crows; crowlike; corvid.

    • [Although we can thus write of a crow's voice with the pen of levity, we are still sorry when we think that that crowly organ is never ... bird.]
    • Noisy music drifted out of the screened window of the bar, but under it I could hear the crickets and the repetitions of a whippoorwill and under that again the crowly croaking of the bullfrogs in the reeds along the water's edge.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA