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Significados de kotow em inglês

Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering.

        A former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission.

              Sinônimos
              Examples for "fawn"
              Examples for "fawn"
              1
              Yes, it is true that the jaguar and the fawn hide here.
              Gods go begging
              2
              He looked down at the fawn in a helpless sort of way.
              The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3
              3
              Its materials were of a fawn-coloured stone, common in the Mowbray quarries.
              Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
              4
              Our young braves run to battle with the swiftness of the fawn.
              This Country of Ours
              5
              She put her hand in his and jumped lightly as a fawn.
              The Last Trail
              1
              The countess here does toady you, and so do the young ladies.
              Doctor Thorne
              2
              Shit you might have been, evil-toady Goliathlackey shit you most definitely weren't.
              One of our Thursdays is missing
              3
              I think he is a toady; a kind of German Boswell.
              Hyperion
              4
              Dear Madam, this is to cancel my subscription because of that Brit-loving toady.
              The Irish Times
              5
              Guards in scarlet flanked the shadow; a Chagrian toady cringed nearby.
              Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
              1
              Off with your cap, Snob; down on your knees, Snob, and truckle.
              The Book of Snobs
              2
              Two truckle beds, a table, and two chairs formed the sole furniture.
              With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War
              3
              Quest was on his hands and knees, fumbling under his truckle bed.
              The Black Box
              4
              At last the man came, shuffling, grumbling, and cursing, from his truckle-bed.
              The Red Axe
              5
              I'm not going to truckle to rascals because I'm afraid of them.
              Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush-Life
              1
              Turned down for that fellow Prescott--thatshifty dodger and cheap bootlick!
              Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point; Or, Standing Firm for ...
              2
              And you've got to play politics, bootlick your boss-allthat.
              O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
              3
              Bah, as if I could ever get over my dislike for a bootlick like Prescott!
              Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point; Or, Standing Firm for ...
              4
              Bone bootlick on-tocultivate the favor of.
              Rhymes of the Rookies / Sunny Side of Soldier Service
              5
              Occasionally a cadet who wants cadet honors resorts to "boning bootlick" with the tactical officers stationed at the academy.
              Dick Prescott's Third Year at West Point; Or, Standing Firm for ...
              1
              I'm not including this just to suck up to you, Tom, honest.
              The Guardian
              2
              But there's no one of any importance left to suck up to!
              Pasta Imperfect
              3
              Next time you suck up your loss like a big girl, eh?
              Smoke and Shadow
              4
              The anteater can suck up water and be used as a watering can.
              Wired
              5
              Jetpack Joyrideis an addictive, clever game that will suck up your free time.
              The Irish Times
              Uso de kotow em inglês
              1
              It was the elder one to whom the world kotow-ed.
              Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
              2
              The smile returned to her face, and her body bent in a kind of kotow.
              Parrot & Co.
              3
              Even in the midst of a mess like this we'll have to kotow to his rank or he'll probably be reporting us.
              The U-boat hunters
              4
              I believe if you asked me to do the Chinese kotow, and bend to the earth before you, I'd secretly be dying to do it.
              The Militants / Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fig...
              5
              Later we ladies were invited into the room, where the Chinese all kotowed.
              Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People
              6
              The boy kotowed, and Elsa gave him a sovereign.
              Parrot & Co.
              7
              Kotow; pour our millions into the bottomless purses of spendthrifts; give them our most beautiful women.
              The Voice in the Fog
              8
              Now, nobody ever kotows to us at home.
              A Gentleman's Gentleman / 1909
              9
              Kathlyn was there, somewhere among these kotowing women; but there was nothing by which he could recognize her.
              The Adventures of Kathlyn
              10
              Yes; but the curse of a priest who believes in different gods, who kotows before a painted idol!
              The Adventures of Kathlyn
              11
              How the fools kotowed and simpered while I looked over their jewels and speculated upon how much I could get for them!
              The Voice in the Fog
              12
              The great gates were thrown open and there in the gateway the female members of the family knelt and kotowed as the chair passed by.
              Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People
              13
              "I can't see why I should kotow to him, or what further harm he can do," said the candidate, but he deferred to Bowers's judgment.
              The Henchman
              Colocações frequentes
              Kotow ao longo do tempo