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scraping and bowing

scraping and bowing is the alternative form of bowing and scraping.

Meaning of bowing and scraping

Noun

bowing and scraping (countable and uncountable, plural bowings and scrapings)

  1. Obsequious or deferential behaviour.

Questions about scraping and bowing

What is scraping and bowing the alternative form of?
Scraping and bowing is the alternative form of bowing and scraping.

Words near scraping and bowing in the dictionary

  1. scrapied
  2. scrapies
  3. scrapin'
  4. scraping
  5. scraping along
  6. scraping and bowing
  7. scraping at the bottom of the barrel
  8. scraping by
  9. scraping down
  10. scraping off
  11. scraping someone off the ceiling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scraping and bowing (page history and authors); bowing and scraping (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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