Crowly vs Crawly - What's the difference?
crowly | crawly |
Of, relating to, or resembling a crow or crows; crowlike; corvid.
*1867 , Hugh Rowley, Puniana: or, Thoughts wise and other-wise :
*1989 , Ted Wood, Corkscrew :
*2002 , Calvin Simonds, Private Lives of Garden Birds :
In a crowlike manner.
*1953 , House & garden:
*2002 , Ian Whybrow, Tony Ross, Little Wolf, pack leader :
As adjectives the difference between crowly and crawly
is that crowly is of, relating to, or resembling a crow or crows; crowlike; corvid while crawly is having a sensation of being covered in moving things such as insects.As an adverb crowly
is in a crowlike manner.crowly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- [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.”
Adverb
(en-adv)- [...] bearing exceptionally heavy flower spikes with numerous large florets crowly placed on stem.
- All because of a small crowd of crows I woke up in the nighttime with my howling. They flew south past Stubby's nest on the roof of my house the next day and said to him crowly about me going Help Bonk.