1. Exhibiting self-importance
   "crowing talk";
   - boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy [informal], 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], gasconade [archaic], vapouring [Brit, Cdn]

1. Utter shrill sounds
   "The cocks crowed all morning"
    
2. Express pleasure verbally
   "She crowed with joy"
    
3. Dwell on with satisfaction
   "He couldn't help but crow over his victory in the chess tournament";
   - gloat, triumph

Derived forms: crowings

See also: proud

Type of: blow [informal], 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], utter, vaunt

Encyclopedia: Crowing