English

Adjective

crowly ‎(comparative crowlier or more crowly, superlative crowliest or most crowly)

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a crow or crows; crowlike; corvid.
   • 1867, Hugh Rowley, Puniana: or, Thoughts wise and other-wise:

     [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.]

   • 1989, Ted Wood, Corkscrew:

     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.

   • 2002, Calvin Simonds, Private Lives of Garden Birds:

     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

crowly ‎(comparative crowlier or more crowly, superlative crowliest or most crowly)

1. In a crowlike manner.
   • 1953, House & garden:

     [...] bearing exceptionally heavy flower spikes with numerous large florets crowly placed on stem.

   • 2002, Ian Whybrow, Tony Ross, Little Wolf, pack leader:

     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.