Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The crop of a bird or insect.
- n. The stomach of an animal.
- idiom. stick in (one's) craw To cause one to feel abiding discontent and resentment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The crop or first stomach of a bird, technically called the ingluvies.
- n. Figuratively, the stomach of any animal.
- n. The ingluvies or enlarged extremity of the esophagus in certain insects. See cut under Blattidæ.
- n. Scotch form of crow.
- n. Scotch form of crow.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic The stomach of an animal.
- n. The crop of a bird.
- v. archaic to caw, crow, for certain birds to make their cry
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The crop of a bird.
- n. The stomach of an animal.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
Etymologies
- Akin to Middle Low German krage ("neck, collar") (whence Danish krave and German Kragen ("collar")) (Wiktionary)
- Middle English crawe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Sticking most in my craw is having to miss the Long Beach Opera's "No Mozart" show, honoring the composer's anniversary year by featuring none of his music but three works by Nyman, Andriessen, and Part about Mozart and his legacy.”
“But what really sticks in my craw is I'm here sitting in a stadium other taxpayers and I paid for.”
“The Personal Democracy Forum provided plenty of food for thought to masticate, but one bit that’s stuck in my craw is the way the phrase “citizen journalism,” which should denote an important concept, seems to be turning into a marketing buzzword for mediocre writers.”
“But the thing that stuck in my craw was the statement:”
“Beauty queen Bryant preached an Old Testament activism and what stuck in her craw was a 1977 Miami-Dade County amendment to the local human rights ordinance making it illegal to discriminate in housing, loans, and employment based upon sexual preference.”
Georgianne Nienaber: The Campaign: The Audacity of Hope Did Not Die in Maine
“Testament activism and what stuck in her craw was a 1977 Miami-Dade”
“The last thing that sticks in my craw is the voiceover of how the Centurions "were given their freedom" and let go on the Base Ship and the "2s,6s and 8s agreed to live" on new Earth ... yet there is no mention of the 1s, 4s and 5s.”
“I think what stuck in her craw was the use of the Ann Landers name," Dickinson told me.”
“But the bits that stick in my craw are the following sections of the accompanying press release:”
“Found it interesting on many levels, but what really stuck in my craw was the juxtaposition with the Janet Jackson situation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘craw’.
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retrocausality, brusque, gainsay, cheerio, jaundiced, chamois, caw, craw, fudge, bubbler, shebang, bolo and 244 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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amber words
amber words is the term I use for words that are all but fossilized, in the sense that their use is always in the context of a single expression. Examples include caboodle, dudgeon, umbrage
sanctum, akimbo, amok, riddance, druthers, trove, caboodle, immemorial, blithering, dudgeon, swaddling, askance and 110 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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I like the sound of that!
Words that I find euphonious, eurhythmic, or just generally fun to say.
euphonious, gossamer, spelunking, moist, bedridden, rutabaga, quagmire, succotash, hootenany, glacial, sesquicentennial, caucus and 77 more...
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four-letter words starting with 'c'
clap, claw, cast, cart, cork, cord, care, cram, corn, cusp, cure, curt and 85 more...
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Kerrily's Vomitrocious Words
honky tonk, ding-a-ling, awkward, chiffon, dowdy, dawdle, spleen, uvula, lettuce, kielbasa, frankfurter, hamburg and 16 more...
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bFusion's Words
succor, lush, slurry, odium, ridiculous, vital, zen, sway, awkward, viscous, quintessential, quiddity and 45 more...
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bilby No. Oct 2, 2008
whichbe You don't want to get anything stuck in this. Oct 2, 2008
yarb While these things were going on in the buttery, kindred exploits were performing in the kitchen. The cook too was regaling three or four tradesmen of his acquaintance, who liked good wine as well as ourselves, nor disdained to stuff their craws with meat pasties and game: the very scullions were at free quarters, and filched whatever they pleased.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 7 ch. 14 Oct 2, 2008