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truckle¹

  • /ˈtɹʌkəl/

Rhymes with -ʌkəl

Where it comes from

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.

noun truckles · troccle

  1. A small wheel; a caster or pulley.
  2. A small wheel of cheese.
  3. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of truckle bed

    Similar: truckle bed, trundle bed, trundle

verb truckles · truckling · truckled

  1. To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
  2. intransitive To sleep in a truckle bed.

truckle²

  • /ˈtɹʌkəl/

Rhymes with -ʌkəl

Where it comes from

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.

verb truckles · truckling · truckled

  1. intransitive To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior. "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,

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verb to act submissively

Русскийраболе́пствовать rabolépstvovatʹ

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@misc{truckle_2026,
  title = {truckle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/truckle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}