crowing
Dawn bird's cry
Crowing is the loud, distinctive call a rooster makes, especially at dawn.
By extension, crowing describes boastful or triumphant speech—announcing one's success with excessive pride: He was crowing about his promotion all week.
The word carries a note of gloating, suggesting the person is making more noise than the achievement warrants.
Rooster's morning call
- cockerelMale chicken, not mature
- barnyardFarm's animal enclosure
- henhousePoultry dwelling
- daybreakMorning's first light
wattles · comb · feathers · perch · roost · poultry · flock · farmyard
Excessive self-praise
- gloatingSmug triumph display
- vauntingBoastfully self-promoting
- swaggeringOstentatiously self-assured manner
- self-congratulationAdmiring one's own accomplishments
smugness · triumphalism · self-satisfaction · braggadocio · grandstanding · preening · exulting · rubbing it in
cock-a-doodle-doo
Rooster's morning call
daybreak · wattles · comb · feathers · perch · roost · poultry · flock · farmyard · coop
bragging
Excessive self-praise
- gloatingSmug triumph display
- vauntingBoastfully self-promoting
- swaggeringOstentatiously self-assured manner
self-congratulation · smugness · triumphalism · self-satisfaction · braggadocio · grandstanding · preening · exulting · rubbing it in · showboating
cooing
Soft murmuring sounds
- babblingIncoherent or infantile speech
- gurglingBubbling liquid sound
- vocalizationProducing sounds with voice
coo · delight · squealing · preverbal · joyful · contented · developmental milestone
- animal soundsbark, meow, woof, moo, roar
- bird soundschirp, birdcall, tweet, bird songs, cheep
- farm animal traitswoolly, spotted, hooved, horned, feathered
- showing offboasting, bragged, show off, bragging, boasted
- bird behaviorsflying, soaring, perching, nesting, migrating
- celebrationsgraduation, festival, party, wedding, fireworks
crowinghumble
Unassuming about oneself
modest · self-deprecating · unassuming · self-effacing · meek
crowingdejected
Low in spirits
crestfallen · downcast · despondent · depressed · defeated
crowingsilent
Producing no sound
mute · hushed · quiet · whispering · tight-lipped
- rooster crowingMale chicken vocalizing
- crowing overBoasting triumphantly about success
- crowing about