- crow. In Scotland it is often applied to the rook and the hooded crow or hoodie craw as well as the carrion crow. A sixteenth-century saying warns of partiality:
The black craw thinks her ain bird whitest.
A later saying warns of consequences:
Whaur the craw flees her tail follows.
The Scots version of 'I have a bone to pick with you' is:
A hae a craw tae pluck wi ye.
A craw in yer throat denotes a thirst especially one induced by an excess of alcohol the night before. A monumental hangover is described by James Smith in Habbie and Madge (1872):
For it's no a craw I'm fashed [troubled] wi' this mornin'; it's mair like an eagle or a vulture.
For the Crow Road means about to die - a gone corbie!