crowly

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English

Etymology

From crow +‎ -ly.

Adjective

crowly (comparative more crowly, superlative most crowly)

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling a crow or crows; crowlike; corvid.
    • 1867, Hugh Rowley, Puniana: or, Thoughts wise and other-wise:
      [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.]
    • 1989, Ted Wood, Corkscrew:
      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.
    • 2002, Calvin Simonds, Private Lives of Garden Birds:
      Because the crow's ear is faster than ours, it maybe that the crow hears its own sounds not as continuous low-pitched sounds but as more or less rapid trains of ... Sometimes different kinds of caws stand for different kinds of crowly “concerns.”