truckle
[verb]
Synonyms: fawn, apple-polish, bootlick, brownnose, cower, cringe, grovel, honey (up), kowtow, toady

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Related Idioms: *kiss ass, kiss (or lick) one's boots, lick the feet of, make a doormat of oneself
Related Words: knuckle down, knuckle under, succumb, follow, tag, tail, trail

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

truck·le (trkəl)
n.
A small wheel or roller; a caster.
intr.v. truck·led, truck·ling, truck·les
To be servile or submissive. See Synonyms at fawn¹.

[TahlilGaran] American Dictionary ▲

truckle
[Middle English trocle, pulley, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin trochlea, system of pulleys. See trochlea.]

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truckle
truckler n.

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