Difference between Curtsy and Bob

What is the difference between Curtsy and Bob?

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. while Bob as a noun is a bobbing motion.

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.

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 cropShort form of bobsleigh

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

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