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knee-crooking

adj

Etymology

Compare bend the knee.

Definitions

  1. Obsequious

    Obsequious; submissive.

    • With his usual dose of commonsense he recognized that nothing could really change the status quo, and all that a knee-crooking knave might do in protest was to sneak a line or two into his verse simply to let off steam […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA