Difference between Bob and Curtsy

What is the difference between Bob and Curtsy?

Bob as a noun is a bobbing motion. while Curtsy as a noun is a small bow, generally performed by a woman or a girl, where she crosses one calf of her leg behind the other and briefly bends her knees and lowers her body in deference.

Bob

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A bobbing motion. A bobber. A curtsy. A bob haircut. The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line. The docked tail of a horse. A short line ending a stanza of a poem. The short runner of a sled. A shilling. An unspecified amount of money. A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement. A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water. To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water. To curtsy. To cut (hair) into a bob haircut. To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop Short form of bobsleigh

Curtsy

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A small bow, generally performed by a woman or a girl, where she crosses one calf of her leg behind the other and briefly bends her knees and lowers her body in deference.

We hope you now know whether to use Bob or Curtsy in your sentence.

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