truckling

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adjective

Apt to truckle, often fawning, obsequious, ingratiating.

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Meanings

adjectivetruckling (comparative more truckling, superlative most truckling)

comparative more truckling · superlative most truckling

  1. Apt to truckle, often fawning, obsequious, ingratiating.
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentPresent participle and gerund of truckle.
nountruckling (plural trucklings)

plural trucklings

  1. 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

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
obsequioussuckysycophantic
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “truckling,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/truckling.

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