A word that starts with "genu" or something alike

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I remember that there's this word that means to grovel or to bend over backward to please someone else.

Anybody has any idea?
I don't have any other clue than it starts with "genu" or MAYBE something alike, Sorry, senile citizen here!

MIG · Accepted Answer

genuflect

Philip · Answer

Genuflect means to bend at the knee (usually only one knee). Some Christians genuflect when entering certain holy spaces.

GCheng620 · Answer

PhilipGenuflect means to bend at the knee (usually only one knee). Some Christians genuflect when entering certain holy spaces.

That's how you conceive the meaning of the word?

There are so many words that are deemed to indicate a certain meaning nowadays despite what and how many meanings they ACTUALLY can be used to convey.

For example if I use the word "***" for "weird"to describe a behavior or matter, most American people, unless they've lived through the period where the government was in war with Vietnam, will be hugely baffled because they'll think that the word indicates some certain context which bespatters the homosexual. This happened EVERY TIME I used that particular word.

SO I assume this one of that many words whose one particular meaning undermines the others?

Thanks in advance:)

Mister Micawber · Answer

GCheng620SO I assume this one of that many words whose one particular meaning undermines the others?

Genuflect, I think, is much more used in the religious or honest obeisance meaning.

Fivejedjon · Answer

Mister Micawber GCheng620SO I assume this one of that many words whose one particular meaning undermines the others?Genuflect, I think, is much more used in the religious or honest obeisance meaning.

Tom Lehrer made fun of this brilliantly:

WARNING: do not watch this is you are offended by religious practices being mocked.

Mister Micawber · Answer

Omigod!  Another Tom Lehrer fan!

Fivejedjon · Answer

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Philip · Answer

fivejedjonYup.

Me, too!

Clive · Answer

Moi aussi.

Mister Micawber · Answer

Does that date us, or what?

I have a friend in Minsk,
Who has a friend in Pinsk,
Whose friend in Omsk
Has friend in Tomsk
With friend in Akmolinsk.
His friend in Alexandrovsk
Has friend in Petropavlovsk,
Whose friend somehow
Is solving now
The problem in Dnepropetrovsk.

And when his work is done -
Ha ha! - begins the fun.
From Dnepropetrovsk
To Petropavlovsk,
By way of Iliysk,
And Novorossiysk,
To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk
To tTomsk to Omsk
To Pinsk to Minsk
To me the news will run,
Yes, to me the news will run!

And then I write
By morning, night,
And afternoon,
And pretty soon
My name in Dnepropetrovsk is cursed,
When he finds out I publish first!

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