truckle
[verb]
Synonyms: fawn, apple-polish, bootlick, brownnose, cower, cringe, grovel, honey (up), kowtow, toady

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Related Idioms: *kiss ass, kiss (or lick) one's boots, lick the feet of, make a doormat of oneself
Related Words: knuckle down, knuckle under, succumb, follow, tag, tail, trail

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truckle noun. ['trʌk(ǝ)l] LME.
[Anglo-Norman trocle from Latin trochlea from Greek trokhileia sheaf of a pulley.]
1. A small grooved wheel in a pulley-block for a cord to run on; a pulley. LME.

2. A small roller or wheel placed under or attached to a heavy object to facilitate moving the object; a castor. Now dial. LME.

3. In full truckle-bed. A low bed on truckles or castors, pushed under a larger bed for storage. LME.

4. A low-wheeled cart or wagon. Chiefly Anglo-Irish & Canad. L17.

5. A small barrel-shaped cheese. Also truckle cheese. Orig. dial. E19.

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truckle verb. ['trʌk(ǝ)l] E17.
[from truckle-bed: see TRUCKLE noun.]
1. verb intrans. Sleep in a truckle-bed. (Foll. by under, beneath.) Only in 17.

2. verb intrans. fig. Take a subordinate or inferior position; submit, give precedence. Now esp. yield obsequiously; act with servility. Usu. foll. by to a person, for a thing. M17.
■ L. Auchincloss All my life I've had to truckle to the idea that you knew everything. Times Many Afrikaners accused him of..truckling to foreigners.
b. Give way timidly; quail, cower. M19.

3. verb intrans. & trans. Move (an object) on truckles or castors; trundle. obsolete exc. Canad. dial. M17.

4. verb intrans. Traffic or deal with. rare. E19.

■ truckler noun a person who truckles or yields obsequiously E19.

■ trucklingly adverb in a truckling or obsequious manner M19.

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