Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small wheel or roller; a caster.
- intransitive verb To be servile or submissive. synonym: fawn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wheel of a pulley; also, a pulley.
- noun Jabol, a truckle or pullie. … Moufle, a truckle for a pullie.
- noun A small wheel or caster.
- noun A small flat cheese.
- noun A truckle-bed.
- To move on rollers or casters; trundle.
- To sleep in a truckle-bed. See
truckle , n., 4, and truckle-bed. - Hence To be tamely subordinate, as a pupil to his tutor, or a servant to his master; yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; submit; cringe; act in a servile manner: usually with to or under.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small wheel or caster.
- intransitive verb To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep.
- transitive verb To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a small
wheel ; acaster orpulley - verb To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to
trundle . - verb intransitive to
act in asubmissive manner ; tofawn , submit to asuperior
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
- verb try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
- verb yield to out of weakness
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"I suppose that's what they call a truckle-bed," he mused.
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"I suppose that's what they call a truckle-bed," he mused.
Count Bunker 1905
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They frankly welcomed the new-comer, and if they did not, as Ingred had bitterly prognosticated, exactly "truckle" to her, they certainly began to treat her as a favorite.
A Popular Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907
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A Vacherin Mont d'Or with some really good crackers is hard not to like, as is a Stilton or a truckle of English cheddar.
In the Mood for Stuff You Can Burn, Eat or Read Rita Konig 2011
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"Britons, fortified by a much more active, muscular liberalism, would no longer truckle to politically correct notions of passive tolerance," says the Prime Minister.
Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Politics Of Islamophobia In Britain Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011
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"Britons, fortified by a much more active, muscular liberalism, would no longer truckle to politically correct notions of passive tolerance," says the Prime Minister.
Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Politics Of Islamophobia In Britain Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011
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"Britons, fortified by a much more active, muscular liberalism, would no longer truckle to politically correct notions of passive tolerance," says the Prime Minister.
Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Politics Of Islamophobia In Britain Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy 2011
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He and his friends, pursuing “a nobler destiny,” felt “no disposition to truckle to the petty usurper, who came into power against the wishes of the great men of his own party, and whose personal character was unworthy of the favor of the meanest minion that shouted in his train.”
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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“Let those whose servility of soul qualified them for the menial task truckle to the Executive,” he declared.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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“Let those whose servility of soul qualified them for the menial task truckle to the Executive,” he declared.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
skipvia commented on the word truckle
You've got to love a word whose definitions include "to bend obsequiously," "a low bed to slide under another bed," and "a type of barrel cheese."
October 1, 2007
reesetee commented on the word truckle
You're right, skipvia. I do. :-)
October 1, 2007
trivet commented on the word truckle
me, too!
October 1, 2007
yarb commented on the word truckle
Green-painted steel truckle, mattress besmirched with
previous occupants' greasy exudings...
- Peter Reading, Going On, 1985
June 19, 2009
bilby commented on the word truckle
"I am convinced that, broadly speaking, the audience must accept the piece on my own terms; that it is fatal to truckle to what one conceives to be popular taste."
- Sidney Joseph Perelman, quoted in 'The Perelman Papers', by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times, 15 March 1981.
August 25, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word truckle
"2. To behave with meanness and servility; crouch; truckle." -- From the Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia definition for sneak.
July 11, 2011
Selchie commented on the word truckle
"She was a fine dashing woman, and without being either pretty or beautiful she gave the impression of being both, mostly from the splendid way she carried her head. She despised her scrub of a husband, who truckled to her; and she had taken to music as a relief from him..."
-Patrick O'Brien, _Master and Commander_
July 28, 2011