stick in (one's) craw

craw (krô)

1. The crop of a bird or insect.

2. The stomach of an animal.

Idiom:

stick in (one's) craw

To cause one to feel abiding discontent and resentment.

[Middle English crawe.]

craw [krɔː]

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) a less common word for crop [6]

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the stomach of an animal

stick in one's craw or throat Informal to be difficult, or against one's conscience, for one to accept, utter, or believe

[related to Middle High German krage, Middle Dutch crāghe neck, Icelandic kragi collar]

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Noun

craw - a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

crop

stomach, tum, tummy, breadbasket - an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion

craw

noun

stick in your craw annoy, anger, outrage, offend, irritate, infuriate, incense, enrage, madden, nettle, vex, rile, pique, nark (Brit., Austral., & N.Z. slang), make your blood boil, piss you off (taboo slang), get your dander up (informal), get your back up, put your back up What stuck in his craw was the implication that he was a liar.

Translations

craw [krɔː] N to stick in one's craw it really sticks in my craw that she thinks → no trago con que ella piense que ...

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