or kotow, verb. (common).—To bow down to; to scrape to; to lickspittle.

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  1874.  E. L. LINTON, Patricia Kemball, xlii. He had never concealed his contempt for him nor KOWTOWED to him rest had done.

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  1890.  H. D. TRAILL, Saturday Songs, ‘A Manly Protest’, p. 70.

        But never for Chawles! To the traitors and plotters
  Whom once he denounced he would scorn to KO-TOO.

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