truckling
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]truckling (comparative more truckling, superlative most truckling)
- Apt to truckle, often fawning, obsequious, ingratiating.
Verb
[edit]truckling
- Present participle and gerund of truckle.
Noun
[edit]truckling (plural trucklings)
- Fawning; ingratiation.
- 1842, Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
- 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 […]