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Kowtow   /kˈaʊtˈaʊ/  /kˈoʊtˈoʊ/   Listen
Kowtow

noun
(Also spelled kotow)
1.
A former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission.  Synonym: kotow.





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"Kowtow" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Lena, "I am inexperienced in the arts of love. I am too proud to kowtow to the berobed and bodiced idol. A woman is a woman, and a man is a man. They delude themselves and each other, or try to, into believing that each woman is a special person, and each man a man ...
— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann
... this actor made him human. You see, Mr. Daly, most Evelyns are like a bottle of gas-charged water: forcibly restrained for a time, then there's a pop and a bang, and in wild freedom the water is foaming thinly over everything in sight. This man didn't kowtow in the early acts, but was curt, cold, showing signs of rebellion more than once, and ...
— [19th Century Actor] Autobiographies • George Iles


Words linked to "Kowtow" :   genuflect, curry favour, obeisance, bowing, bow, toady, court favor, flatter, fawn, blandish, curry favor, truckle, court favour


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