单词 | kowtowing |
释义 | > as lemmaskowˈtowing kowˈtowing adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > submissiveness > submission > [noun] > act of submission > performance of kowtowing1836 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney II. i. 55 Hull, who watched his worship with an almost Koo-too-ing kindness. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxix. 110 It was nothing compared to the bowing and kotooing. 1874 A. C. Maclay Let. 1 May (1886) 47 Then followed a tempest of kow~towing that beggared description. 1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 35 After much kow-towing. < as lemmas |
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