What does bowing and scraping mean?

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bowing and scraping

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English

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verb

present participle and gerund of bow and scrape

noun

Countable; Uncountable

scraping and bowing (alternative) bowings and scrapings (plural)

What does bowing and scraping mean?: present participle and gerund of bow and scrape

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