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noun ˈtrʌk(ə)lˈtrəkəl A small barrel-shaped cheese, especially Cheddar. Example sentencesExamples - Plenty of crusty bread and a big salad with a simplified cheese board, such as a whole Brie and a small truckle of Cheddar, will go down better than a pudding.
- The gentleman in front of her announced that he had come to collect a cheddar - a whole truckle and they are big!
- Each truckle of cheese is covered in a wax coating.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting a wheel or pulley): from Anglo-Norman French trocle, from Latin trochlea 'sheaf of a pulley'. The current sense dates from the early 19th century and was originally dialect. Rhymes buckle, chuckle, knuckle, muckle, ruckle, suckle verbˈtrʌk(ə)lˈtrəkəl [no object]Submit or behave obsequiously. he will neither bow nor truckled to any kind of control they truckled to the leaders of the trade union movement Example sentencesExamples - He himself chose not to run for re-election to the party in 1907, and he expressed the concern that ‘some of its leaders are becoming cowardly and truckling to priests and politicians.’
- Doll Conovan reliably slips backs into Dix's life every time he's released from jail, but he barely acknowledges her existence even when she shares his apartment and caters to his every whim obsequiously truckling, ‘Yeah!’
- Sometimes they indulge false hopes that by lying low, truckling, appeasing, they can avoid danger and strife… And this is what seems to have happened in Spain.
- But the confused combination of ‘respect’ for, fear of, contempt for and truckling to the community was not governed by electoral considerations alone.
- Its members were accused of exceeding their powers, of truckling to the foreigners, and even of treachery.
- Not, he notes, ‘that there isn't plenty of truckling to superiors, parasitism, heavy-handed flattery, back-scratching and bottom-kissing, all calculated to bring special advantages to its purveyors.’
Synonyms kowtow, submit, defer, yield, bend the knee, bow and scrape, make up, be obsequious, pander, toady, prostrate oneself, grovel fawn on, dance attendance on, curry favour with, ingratiate oneself with, abase oneself before informal suck up, crawl, lick someone's boots North American informal brown-nose Australian/New Zealand informal smoodge vulgar slang kiss/lick someone's arse
Derivatives noun What is happening between her trucklers and us is not a debate. Example sentencesExamples - Even his trucklers couldn't deal with the full impact of his vituperations.
- Just don't let the other toadies and trucklers get credit.
- Having lived in Canada, my patience for Canadian trucklers and proditors may be less than yours.
- We refuse to surrender the leadership of this race to cowards and trucklers.
Origin Mid 17th century: figuratively, from truckle bed; an earlier use of the verb was in the sense sleep in a truckle bed. nounˈtrəkəlˈtrəkəl A small barrel-shaped cheese, especially Cheddar. Example sentencesExamples - Plenty of crusty bread and a big salad with a simplified cheese board, such as a whole Brie and a small truckle of Cheddar, will go down better than a pudding.
- Each truckle of cheese is covered in a wax coating.
- The gentleman in front of her announced that he had come to collect a cheddar - a whole truckle and they are big!
Origin Late Middle English (denoting a wheel or pulley): from Anglo-Norman French trocle, from Latin trochlea ‘sheaf of a pulley’. The current sense dates from the early 19th century and was originally dialect. verbˈtrəkəlˈtrəkəl [no object]Submit or behave obsequiously. he will neither bow nor truckled to any kind of control they truckled to the leaders of the trade union movement Example sentencesExamples - He himself chose not to run for re-election to the party in 1907, and he expressed the concern that ‘some of its leaders are becoming cowardly and truckling to priests and politicians.’
- But the confused combination of ‘respect’ for, fear of, contempt for and truckling to the community was not governed by electoral considerations alone.
- Not, he notes, ‘that there isn't plenty of truckling to superiors, parasitism, heavy-handed flattery, back-scratching and bottom-kissing, all calculated to bring special advantages to its purveyors.’
- Its members were accused of exceeding their powers, of truckling to the foreigners, and even of treachery.
- Doll Conovan reliably slips backs into Dix's life every time he's released from jail, but he barely acknowledges her existence even when she shares his apartment and caters to his every whim obsequiously truckling, ‘Yeah!’
- Sometimes they indulge false hopes that by lying low, truckling, appeasing, they can avoid danger and strife… And this is what seems to have happened in Spain.
Synonyms kowtow, submit, defer, yield, bend the knee, bow and scrape, make up, be obsequious, pander, toady, prostrate oneself, grovel
Origin Mid 17th century: figuratively, from truckle bed; an earlier use of the verb was in the sense sleep in a truckle bed. |