crowly
/ˈkɹoʊ.li/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[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."
- "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.”"
Etymology
From crow + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɹoʊ.li/
- British English: /ˈkɹəʊ.li/
Inflected Forms
more crowly (comparative)
most crowly (superlative)