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forelock-tuggingBritish noun [mass noun]Obsequious or overly deferential behaviour: remember when obtaining a mortgage for a house required a great deal of forelock-tugging?...- Smith's appropriation of Joyce smells neither of a lack of inspiration nor of gratuitous forelock-tugging.
- Perhaps we could start with some ritual forelock-tugging, followed by a long statement of royal allegiance.
- Disappointingly, but expectedly, most of the resulting articles have been a mixture of ignorance and/or forelock-tugging.
adjectiveBehaving in an obsequious or overly deferential way: a simpering, forelock-tugging toady...- Such a view wouldn't be out of place from a forelock-tugging serf in Monty Python's Holy Grail.
- The driver apologises with so much forelock-tugging deference, he might as well invite you to beat him.
- The way he defers to Lady Tottington shows that he's a terrible forelock-tugging snob with social ambitions.
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