• RedAggroBest@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Both halves rhyme with cow. It’s a Chinese (iirc?) word used in most of the east Asia to refer to deep bows or prostration used as a sign of deep respect (or more often a deep apology in a modern context) but in the west it has much more of an insulting use to imply someone is an ass-kisser.