Kow : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

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	English	German
	Similar words: How-de-do?, How-d'ye-do?, How?, KO, Ow!, Wow, bow, bow-heavy, bow-legged, bow-net, bow-nets, bow-wow, cow, cow-wheat, double-row, down-bow, face-bow, four-row, how, know, know!
	to bow and scrape (before sb.); to crawl (to sb.); to creep (to sb.); to cringe (before sb.); to toady (to sb.); to truckle (to sb.); to grovel (before sb.); to kowtow (to sb.) [formal] (be obsequious to sb.)	(vor jdm.) buckeln; katzbuckeln; kriechen; jdm. hinten reinkriechen [ugs.]; vor jdm. zu Kreuze kriechen; vor jdm. auf dem Bauch kriechen {vi} [übtr.] (sich unterwürfig verhalten)
	to crawl to the bigwigs and bully the underlings [Br.]; to suck ass and kick ass	nach oben buckeln und nach unten treten
	I had to grovel to the bank manager to get a loan.	Ich musste vor dem Bankdirektor zu Kreuze kriechen, um einen Kredit zu bekommen.