"truckle" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɹʌkəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-truckle.wav Forms: truckles [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌkəl Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|trokel}} Middle English trokel, {{der|en|xno|trocle}} Anglo-Norman trocle, {{der|en|ML.|trochlea||a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys}} Medieval Latin trochlea (“a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys”), {{suffix|en|truck|le}} truck + -le Head templates: {{en-noun}} truckle (plural truckles)
  1. A small wheel; a caster or pulley.
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  2. A small wheel of cheese.
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  3. Ellipsis of truckle bed.. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Alternative form of: truckle bed Synonyms: truckle bed, trundle bed, trundle
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: troccle [obsolete] Derived forms: truckle bed
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈtɹʌkəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-truckle.wav Forms: truckles [present, singular, third-person], truckling [participle, present], truckled [participle, past], truckled [past]
Rhymes: -ʌkəl Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|trokel}} Middle English trokel, {{der|en|xno|trocle}} Anglo-Norman trocle, {{der|en|ML.|trochlea||a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys}} Medieval Latin trochlea (“a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys”), {{suffix|en|truck|le}} truck + -le Head templates: {{en-verb}} truckle (third-person singular simple present truckles, present participle truckling, simple past and past participle truckled)
  1. To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
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  2. (intransitive) To sleep in a truckle bed. Tags: intransitive
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈtɹʌkəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-truckle.wav Forms: truckles [present, singular, third-person], truckling [participle, present], truckled [participle, past], truckled [past]
Rhymes: -ʌkəl Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{gloss|a bed on which a pupil slept, because it was rolled on casters into a lower position under the master's larger bed}} (a bed on which a pupil slept, because it was rolled on casters into a lower position under the master's larger bed), {{der|en|enm|trookylbed}} Middle English trookylbed, {{ncog|enm|*trukelen}} Middle English *trukelen, {{ncog|ang|trucian||to fail, diminish}} Old English trucian (“to fail, diminish”), {{cog|nds|truggeln||to flatter, fawn}} Low German truggeln (“to flatter, fawn”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} truckle (third-person singular simple present truckles, present participle truckling, simple past and past participle truckled)
  1. (intransitive) To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior. Tags: intransitive Derived forms: truckler Translations (to act submissively): сервилнича (servilniča) (Bulgarian), раболе́пствовать (rabolépstvovatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    },
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    }
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}

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        "To sleep in a truckle bed."
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        "(intransitive) To sleep in a truckle bed."
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:",
          "text": "\"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, being called from the tragic climax of her novel, was not in the best mood for social enterprises. \"I don't truckle, and I hate being patronized as much as you do!\" returned Amy indignantly, for the two still jangled when such questions arose.",
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        {
          "ref": "1899, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, in War and Other Essays, Yale, published 1911, page 302:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1687, John Norris, A Collection of Miscellanies, consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters:",
          "text": "Religion it self is forced to truckle to worldly policy.",
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        }
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        "To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior."
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          "submissive"
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        "(intransitive) To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior."
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      "ipa": "/ˈtɹʌkəl/"
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "servilniča",
      "sense": "to act submissively",
      "word": "сервилнича"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rabolépstvovatʹ",
      "sense": "to act submissively",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "раболе́пствовать"
    }
  ],
  "word": "truckle"
}

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