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truckling en · ADJ
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Apt to truckle, often fawning, obsequious, ingratiating.
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Deriveds
untruckling · trucklingly
truckling en · NOUN
Meanings
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Fawning; ingratiation.
Despicable trickery at elections; under-handed tamperings with public officers; cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers; shameful trucklings to mercenary knaves […]
1842, Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
Forms
truckling en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) Present participle and gerund of truckle.