crow – English noun declension

English noun forms of crow

Noun: crow
Singularcrow
Pluralcrows

Sample Sentences

  • Gaslark in his splendour on the golden stairs saying adieu to those three captains and their matchless armament foredoomed to dogs and crows on Salapanta Hills. [1922, E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroborus:]
  • He approached the humble tomb in which Antonia reposed. He had provided himself with an iron crow and a pick-axe: but this precaution was unnecessary. [1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 267:]
  • Watt might have broken the door down, with an axe, or a crow, or a small charge of explosive, but this might have aroused Erskine's suspicions, and Watt did not want that. [1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:]
  • “Ay,” put in a young man, who had the reputation of being the smartest “crow” in London—“‘fishers of men,’ as the parson says.” [1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of his Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 53:]
  • By nine o'clock on the evening of November 12, 1854, Pierce had his confederates in their places. The crow, Agar's woman, lounged across the street from the Trent mansion. [1975, Michael Crichton, The Great Train Robbery:]
  • But it helps a man along to have a wife he can be proud of. Suppose you marry some old crow. People point at her and ask, 'Who is that death's head yonder?' [1899, George Horton, A Fair Brigand, H.S. Stone, page 242:]
  • (Mrs. Meany to Woody, from a window) "I don't care! I'm not running a pet shop."
  • "Well it looks like one with an old crow in the window!" [1970, Paul J. Smith, 0:13 from the start, in Woody Woodpecker: "Seal on the Loose", spoken by Woody Woodpecker (Grace Stafford):]
  • A young petty officer that must have just received his “crow” (a single chevron, with an eagle over it) was showing off to several seamen. [2002, Ed Goodrich, Riggers that Dive, page 46:]
  • The young man had been threatened with loss of his third class rank, his “crow,” the eagle in a petty officer's sleeve insignia. [2003, Jonathan T. Malay, Seraphim Sky, page 106:]

Etymology

1. 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.
2. The verb is a back-formation from crowbar. See: Middle English Nouns 'crowe', Old English Nouns 'crāwe', Dutch Nouns 'kraai', German Nouns 'Krähe'.

Verbs referencing "crow"

Faroese Nouns krá, German Nouns Krähe, Old Norse Nouns kráka, Swedish Nouns kråka, Irish Nouns gró.