Truckle Definition
To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
(intransitive) To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior.
Other Word Forms of Truckle
Noun
Origin of Truckle
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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.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English trokel, trocle, trookyl, 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 +"Ž -le.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English trocle pulley from Anglo-Norman from Latin trochlea system of pulleys trochlea
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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