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curtseying

curtseying is the present participle and gerund of curtsey.

Meaning of curtsey

Verb

curtsey (third-person singular simple present curtseys or curtsies, present participle curtseying, simple past and past participle curtseyed)

  1. To make a curtsey.
    • The hotel's staff never curtsied, nodded, or bowed to the owner as she passed, as they were staunch egalitarians.

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Noun

curtseying (plural curtseyings)

  1. The act of dropping a curtsey.

Forms of curtseying

pluralcurtseyings

Questions about curtseying

What does curtseying mean?
Curtseying means the act of dropping a curtsey.
What is curtseying the present participle and gerund of?
Curtseying is the present participle and gerund of curtsey.
What part of speech is curtseying?
Curtseying is a noun.
What is the plural of curtseying?
The plural of curtseying is curtseyings.

Words near curtseying in the dictionary

  1. curts
  2. curtsey
  3. curtseyed
  4. curtseyer
  5. curtseyers
  6. curtseying
  7. curtseyings
  8. curtseys
  9. curtsied
  10. curtsier
  11. curtsiers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curtseying (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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