noun
Meaning 1
A small wheel; a caster or pulley.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
truckle
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noun
Meaning 2
A small wheel of cheese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
Ellipsis of truckle bed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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Synonyms: truckle bed, trundle bed, trundle
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
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verb
Meaning 5
To sleep in a truckle bed.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
Meaning 7
a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trundle bed, trundle, truckle bed
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bed
verb
Meaning 8
try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He is always kowtowing to his boss
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fawn, toady, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flatter, blandish
Narrower terms: curry favor, curry favour, court favor, court favour
verb
Meaning 9
yield to out of weakness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: yield, relent, soften
History
Etymology
From Middle English trokel, trocle, trookyl, from Anglo-Norman trocle, from Medieval Latin trochlea (“a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys”); or from a diminutive of truck (“wheel”), formed with -le, equivalent to truck + -le.
From a back formation of truckle bed (a bed on which a pupil slept, because it was rolled on casters into a lower position under the master's larger bed), from Middle English trookylbed. Compare also trundle bed. Assisted by false association with Middle English *trukelen, truken, trokien, trukien, from Old English trucian (“to fail, diminish”), Low German truggeln (“to flatter, fawn”), see truck.
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: сервилнича (servilniča) — to act submissively
- Russian: раболе́пствовать (rabolépstvovatʹ) — to act submissively