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curchy

UK/ˈkɜːt͡ʃi/US/ˈkɝt͡ʃi/

curchy is the obsolete form of curtsey.

Meaning of curtsey

Noun

curtsey (plural curtsies or curtseys)

  1. A small bow, generally performed by a woman or a girl, where she crosses the shin of one leg behind the calf of her other leg and briefly bends her knees to lower her body in deference.
    • I refused to make so much as a curtsey for the passing nobles, as I am a staunch egalitarian.

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Forms of curchy

pluralcurchies

Questions about curchy

What is curchy the obsolete form of?
Curchy is the obsolete form of curtsey.
How do you pronounce curchy?
Curchy is pronounced /ˈkɜːt͡ʃi/ (UK).

Words near curchy in the dictionary

  1. curby
  2. curcas
  3. curch
  4. curches
  5. curchies
  6. curchy
  7. Curci
  8. Curcio
  9. Curcios
  10. Curcis
  11. curcubit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curchy (page history and authors); curtsey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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