Truckle

Definition: Truckle

Truckle

Noun

1. A low bed to be slid under a higher bed.

Verb

1. Yield to out of weakness.

2. Tray to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "truckle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Truckle

Flattery

Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.

Servility

Sneak, crawl, crouch, cower, sponge, truckle to, grovel, fawn, lick the feet of, kiss the hem of one's garment, kiss one's ass, suck up.

Submission

Obey; kneel to, bow to, pay homage to, cringe to, truckle to; bend the neck, bend the knee; kneel, fall on one's knees, bow submission, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow.

Crosswords: Truckle

Expressions using "truckle": truckle bed ♦ truckle to. Additional references.

Beginning with "truckle": truckle-bed.

Albanian

përulem (abase oneself, cringe, demean, demean oneself, derogate, descend, kotow, kowtow). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حقر نفسه (abase oneself, demean oneself), ‏دولاب صغير (locker, truck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сервилнича, отстъпвам раболепно, подлизурствувам (cringe, fawn, suck up, toady). (various references)

Czech

podlézat (creep under). (various references)

Finnish

nöyristellä (be servile, cringe, fawn upon). (various references)

French

s'humilier, roulette (trundle). (various references)

German

kriechen (crawl, creep, cringe, grovel, to crawl, to creep, to cringe, to truckle, toady). (various references)

Greek 

κυλιόμαι (grovel, roll, trundle, welter), κυλίω (bowl, roll, trundle), υποτάσσομαι (abide, cave in to, grovel, knuckle under, kowtow, submit, surrender, toe the line). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תרפס (bow and scrape, fawn, grovel, ingratiate oneself, kowtow, toady). (various references)

Hungarian

semmi köze hozzá (it's not his lookout), megalázkodik (cringe, kotow, kowtow, to abase oneself, to cringe, to eat humble pie, to grovel, to kiss the rod, to kotow, to kowtow). (various references)

Italian

abbassarsi (decrease, demean oneself, dip, droop, drop, ebb, fall, lower, neap, prolapse, sag, sink, subside). (various references)

Manx

kercheenagh (abject, cringing, cullionly, dependent, down-and-out, impoverished, impoverishing, miserable, rotten, servile, shabby, slavish, vile, vile morally). (various references)

Pig Latin

uckletray

Portuguese

sujeitar-se (appease, conform, submit), submeter-se (bend, bow, give of self, lie down, obey, pull off, submit, vail, yield), ceder (break, bring to one's knees, convey, demise, desist, dispose of, fold, give in, give up, give way, go, hand over, humor, humour, indulge, knuckle under, part with, prelude, pull off, relinquish, resign, sag, sell, sink, spare, submit, succumb, to yield, transfer, vail, vend, weaken, yield). (various references)

Romanian

se umili (cower, crouch, eat humble pie, grovel, kiss the dust, lower, prostrate), se ploconi (cringe to, crouch, kowtow). (various references)

Russian 

раболепствовать (cringe, kotow, kowtow). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokoriti se (comply, knuckle under, subjugate, yield), mali točak (trundle). (various references)

Spanish

someterse servilmente. (various references)

Swedish

ge vika (bend, give way to), falla undan (fall away, give way to). (various references)

Turkish

tekerlek (roller, tire, trundle, tyre, wheel), yaltaklanmak (adulate, beslaver, blandish, blarney, bow and scrape, court, cringe, curry favor with smb., fawn, grovel, hustle, lick smb.'s boots, play to, slaver, soap down, toady, wheedle), makara (block, bobbin, hasp, pulley, quill, reel, roller, sheave, spool, whip), boyun eğmek (bend, bend the knee, bow, bow down, buckle, buckle under, cave, comply, comply with, give way, indulge, knuckle down, knuckle under, resign oneself to, sit down under, submit, surrender). (various references)

Ukrainian

плазувати (adulate, back-scratch, crawl, creep, grovel). (various references)

trokhileia. (various references)

trochlea. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "truckle": truckled, truckler, trucklers, truckles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Truckle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brockle, bruckle, ruckle, trauchle, Truckell, trucken, Turkle. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cutler, reluct, ruckle, tucker.

-2 letters: clerk, cruel, cruet, culet, curet, cuter, eruct, lucre, recut, truce, truck, ulcer.

-3 letters: celt, clue, cuke, cult, cure, curl, curt, cute, ecru, leku, luce, luck, lure, lurk, lute, reck, ruck, rule, trek, true, tuck, tule, turk.

-4 letters: cel, cue, cur, cut, ecu, elk, kue, lek, let, leu, rec, ret.

+1 letter: truckled, truckler, truckles.

+2 letters: trucklers, truckline.

+3 letters: lackluster, trucklines, turnbuckle, turtleback, turtleneck.

+4 letters: blockbuster, lacklusters, turnbuckles, turtlebacks, turtlenecks.

+5 letters: blockbusters, computerlike, multitracked, turtlenecked.