Kowtow

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  • intransitive verb. To kneel and touch the forehead to the ground in expression of deep respect, worship, or submission, as formerly done in China.
  • intransitive verb. To show servile deference. synonym: fawn.
  • noun. The act of kneeling and touching the forehead to the ground.
  • noun. An obsequious act.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • See kotow.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground; same as kotow. There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings.
  • intransitive verb. To perform the kowtow. Same as kotow
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground.
  • verb. To bow very deeply.
  • verb. To act in a very submissive manner.
  • noun. The act of kowtowing.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission
  • verb. try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
  • verb. bend the knees and bow in a servile manner
    • Word Usage
    "They were already prepared to release those two idiots as soon as they could get even a symbolic kowtow from the imperialists."
    cross-reference
    prostrate  
    Form
    kowtowed  kowtowing  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bow  bowing  obeisance  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Au  Beau  Bilbao  Bio  Bo  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    apple-polish  bend  bend the knee  bend the neck  bend to  
    variant
    kotow  
    verb-form
    kowtowed  kowtowing  kowtows  
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