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trucking industry |
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Truckle
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Truckle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Truckle has 1 sense
- truckle(n = noun.artifact) truckle bed, trundle, trundle bed - a low bed to be slid under a higher bed; Array is a kind of bed
Verb Truckle has 2 senses
- truckle(v = verb.stative) Array - yield to out of weakness; Array is one way to relent, soften, yield
- truckle(v = verb.communication) bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady - try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" is one way to blandish, flatter
Derived form noun truckler1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
Derived forms noun truckler1, noun truckling1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
CIDE DICTIONARY
Truckle, n. [Dim. of truck a wheel; or from the kindred L. trochlea a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys. See Truck a wheel.].
A small wheel or caster. Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
Truckle, v. i. [From truckle in truckle-bed, in allusion to the fact that the truckle-bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master.].
To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep. Burke. [1913 Webster]
"Religion itself is forced to truckle to worldly poliey."
[1913 Webster]
Truckle, v. t.
To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Truckle, n. & v.
--n.
1 (in full truckle-bed) a low bed on wheels that can be stored under a larger bed.
2 orig. dial. a small barrel-shaped cheese.
--v.intr. (foll. by to) submit obsequiously.
--n.
1 (in full truckle-bed) a low bed on wheels that can be stored under a larger bed.
2 orig. dial. a small barrel-shaped cheese.
--v.intr. (foll. by to) submit obsequiously.
Derivative
truckler n.
Etymology
orig. = wheel, pulley, f. AF trocle f. L trochlea pulley
THESAURUS
Truckle
apple-polish, bootlick, bow, brown-nose, butter up, cower, crawl, cringe, defer, fall all over, fawn upon, follow, genuflect, grovel, knuckle down, knuckle under, kowtow, quail, salaam, scrape, submit, succumb, suck up to, tag, tail, toady, trail, yield
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