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crake

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Noun

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun crake has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

crakev. t. & i. [See Crack.].
  •  To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.  [1913 Webster]
    "Each man may crake of that which was his own."  [1913 Webster]
craken. 
     A boast. See Crack, n.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
craken. [Cf. Icel. kr crow, kr raven, Sw. kr, Dan. krage; perh. of imitative origin. Cf. Crow.].
     Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

crake, n.
1 any rail (see RAIL(3)), esp. a corncrake.
2 the cry of a corncrake.

Etymology
ME f. ON kr{aacute}ka (imit.): cf. CROAK

ROGET THESAURUS

crake

Boasting

N boasting, boast, vaunt, crake, pretense, pretensions, puff, puffery, flourish, fanfaronade, gasconade, blague, bluff, gas, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism, brag, braggardism, bravado, bunkum, buncombe, jactitation, jactancy, bounce, venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics, Chauvinism, exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen, exultation, gloriation, glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph, boaster, braggart, braggadocio, Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant, blower, bluffer, Foxy Quiller, blusterer, charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter, puppy, boasting, magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant, vainglorious, highfalutin, highfaluting, spread- eagle, elate, elated, jubilant, triumphant, exultant, in high feather, flushed, flushed with victory, cock-a-hoop, on stilts, vaunted, vauntingly, let the galled jade wince, facta non verba.

VB boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor, blague, blow, four-flush, bluff, exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph, throw up one's cap, talk big, se faire valoir, faire claquer son fouet, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood.

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