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kotoo

kotoo is the obsolete form of kowtow.

Meaning of kowtow

Noun

kowtow (plural kowtows)

  1. (intransitive) The act of kowtowing.
    • Three elders dressed in their long silk ceremonial gowns perform the kowtow before the altar in their clan ancestral hall.1990, Hugh D. R. Baker, Hong Kong Images: People and Animals, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 93
    Synonyms:
    dogeza

See all 4 meanings of kowtow

Forms of kotoo

Noun
pluralkotoos
Verb
third-person singular presentkotoos
present participlekotooing
past participlekotooed
pastkotooed

Questions about kotoo

What is kotoo the obsolete form of?
Kotoo is the obsolete form of kowtow.

Words near kotoo in the dictionary

  1. kotolike
  2. kotomolide
  3. Kotone
  4. kotong cop
  5. kotong cops
  6. kotoo
  7. kotooed
  8. kotooing
  9. kotoos
  10. Kotor
  11. kotos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kotoo (page history and authors); kowtow (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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