truckle
English
Alternative forms
- troccle (obsolete)
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English trokel, trocle, trookyl, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman trocle, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌkəl
Noun
truckle (plural truckles)
- A small wheel; a caster or pulley.
- A small wheel of cheese.
- A truckle bed.
Derived terms
Verb
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- To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
- (intransitive) To sleep in a truckle bed.
Etymology 2
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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English trookylbed. Compare also trundle bed. Assisted by false association with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English *trukelen, truken, trokien, trukien, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English trucian (“to fail, diminish”), Low German truggeln (“to flatter, fawn”), see truck.
Verb
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- (intransitive) To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior.
- 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:
- "Why in the world should you spend your money, worry your family, and turn the house upside down for a parcel of girls who don't care a sixpence for you? I thought you had too much pride and sense to truckle to any mortal woman just because she wears French boots and rides in a coupe," said Jo, who, being called from the tragic climax of her novel, was not in the best mood for social enterprises. "I don't truckle, and I hate being patronized as much as you do!" returned Amy indignantly, for the two still jangled when such questions arose.
- 1899, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, in War and Other Essays, Yale, published 1911, page 302:
- There is no doubt […] that truckling to popularity is the worst political vice.
- Norris
- Religion itself is forced to truckle to worldly policy.
Derived terms
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References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- English terms derived from Medieval Latin
- English terms suffixed with -le
- Rhymes:English/ʌkəl
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