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etymology - What did it originally mean to bow and scrape . . . The term refers to the habit, in former times, of the excessively servile to bow while simultaneously scraping a foot backward It had appeared in print by 1646, in Jeremiah Whitaker's Uzziah: "Have you not known some in a low condition, to bow and scrape"?
Bow and scrape - Idioms by The Free Dictionary If someone is bowing and scraping, they are behaving in a way that is extremely respectful towards a powerful or famous person Note: `Bow' is pronounced with the same vowel sound as the word `how'
Bowing - Wikipedia In early modern courtly circles, males were expected to "bow and scrape" (hence the term "bowing and scraping" for what appears to be excessive ceremony) "Scraping" refers to the drawing back of the right leg as one bows, such that the right foot scrapes the floor or earth