craw
Plural: craws
Noun
- The crop of a bird or insect.
- a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
- The stomach of an animal.
- The crop of a bird.
Verb
- To caw, crow.
Examples
- That play really sticks in my craw; I should have seen it first.
Origin / Etymology
Late Middle English, also attested as craue, from or related to Middle Dutch crāghe or Middle Low German crāghe (“collar, neck”), from Proto-Germanic *kragô (“throat”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʷrogʰ- or *gʷrh₃-gʰ- (“throat, gullet”), whence also Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“throat, gullet”) and perhaps Ancient Greek βρόχθος (brókhthos, “throat”). The root appears to be an extension of Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow, devour”), though the identity and meaning of the suffix is unclear. Compare Latin gurges (“gulf, bay; whirlpool, eddy”).
Other Germanic cognates include Danish krave, German Kragen (“collar”) and Old Dutch kraga (“neck”) (whence modern Dutch kraag). See also crag (Etymology 2).
Scrabble Score: 9
craw: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcraw: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
craw: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary