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verb (used without object), truck·led, truck·ling.
to submit or yield obsequiously or tamely (usually followed by to): Don't truckle to unreasonable demands.
Origin:
1605–15; special use of obsolete truckle to sleep on a truckle bed. See truckle2
1605–15; special use of obsolete truckle to sleep on a truckle bed. See truckle2
Related forms
truck·ler, noun
truck·ling·ly, adverb
un·truck·led, adjective
un·truck·ling, adjective
Synonyms
grovel, bow, concede, kowtow.
grovel, bow, concede, kowtow.
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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English trocle sheave, roller < Anglo-French < Latin trochlea pulley. See trochlea
1375–1425; late Middle English trocle sheave, roller < Anglo-French < Latin trochlea pulley. See trochlea
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Word Origin & History
truckle
"small wheel or roller," 1397, from Anglo-Fr. trocle, from L. trochlea "a small wheel, sheaf of a pulley," from Gk. trokhileia "a pulley," from trokhos "wheel," from trekhein "to run," from PIE base *dhregh- "to run" (cf. O.Ir. droch "wheel," Lith. pa-drosti "to run fast"). Truckle bed "small bed on
EXPAND wheels that can be stowed under a larger bed" is from 1459.
truckle
"give up or submit tamely," 1612, "sleep in a truckle bed" (see truckle (n.)). Meaning "give precedence, assume a submissive position" (1656, implied in truckling) is perhaps in allusion to that type of bed being used by servants and inferiors, or from it simply occupying the lower position.
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