"kow-tow" meaning in All languages combined

See kow-tow on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: kow-tows [present, singular, third-person], kow-towing [participle, present], kow-towed [participle, past], kow-towed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|head=kow-tow}} kow-tow (third-person singular simple present kow-tows, present participle kow-towing, simple past and past participle kow-towed)
  1. Alternative spelling of kowtow. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: kowtow
    Sense id: en-kow-tow-en-verb-7UnUOkkZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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      ]
    },
    {
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kow-towed",
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    },
    {
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  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1901 September 1, The Spectator, number 3,819, →OCLC, page 6:",
          "text": "Prince Chun, who even in Europe would not kow-tow to a European or allow his attendants to kow-tow, will be, we may rest assured, a hero in Chinese eyes.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1940 [1940 July 17], [Clyde] Carr, quotee, Parliamentary Debates, volume 257, →OCLC, page 561:",
          "text": "I do not believe in kow-towing to anybody",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993 [1991], Clarence Thomas, quotee, Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States […] , →OCLC, page 158:",
          "text": "[U]nless you kow-tow to an old order, this is what will happen to you",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Alternative spelling of kowtow."
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    }
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        "present",
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        "third-person"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "kow-towing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kow-towed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kow-towed",
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          "ref": "1901 September 1, The Spectator, number 3,819, →OCLC, page 6:",
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          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1940 [1940 July 17], [Clyde] Carr, quotee, Parliamentary Debates, volume 257, →OCLC, page 561:",
          "text": "I do not believe in kow-towing to anybody",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993 [1991], Clarence Thomas, quotee, Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States […] , →OCLC, page 158:",
          "text": "[U]nless you kow-tow to an old order, this is what will happen to you",
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        }
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}

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