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kotowing

kotowing is the present participle and gerund of kotow.

kotowing is the alternative form of kowtowing.

Meaning of kowtowing

Noun

kowtowing (plural kowtowings)

  1. The act of one who kowtows; a submissive bow.
    • Yoritomo met their smiles and kowtowings and noisy insuckings of breath with an austere dignity that I took pains to imitate.1910, Robert Ames Bennet, The Shogun's Daughter

Forms of kotowing

pluralkotowings

Questions about kotowing

What is kotowing the present participle and gerund of?
Kotowing is the present participle and gerund of kotow.

Words near kotowing in the dictionary

  1. Kotosho
  2. kotow
  3. kotowed
  4. kotower
  5. kotowers
  6. kotowing
  7. kotowings
  8. kotows
  9. Kotowski
  10. Kotowskis
  11. Kotoxó

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kotowing (page history and authors); kowtowing (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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