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Kowtowing vs Crawling - What's the difference?

kowtowing | crawling | Related terms |

Kowtowing is a related term of crawling.


As verbs the difference between kowtowing and crawling

is that kowtowing is while crawling is .

As nouns the difference between kowtowing and crawling

is that kowtowing is the act of one who kowtows; a submissive bow while crawling is the motion of something that crawls.

kowtowing

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

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

    crawling

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that crawls.
  • * Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Miss Brass devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.

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