单词 | truckling |
释义 | trucklingn. The action of truckle v.; mean submission. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [noun] fawninga1350 submission?a1439 overlowness1496 servility1573 servilenessa1594 obsequency1595 obsequiousness1613 cringing1617 slavishnessa1620 vernility1623 servulating1637 suppleness1638 sneakinga1657 subserviency1669 fawningness1672 subservience1680 cringingness1695 truckling1820 obsequience1830 flunkeyism1831 servilism1831 spanielship1832 toadyism1840 flunkeydom1850 oleaginousness1853 vassalism1854 toadying1863 grovel1892 obsequity1892 crawlsomeness1900 serfishness1906 oleosity?1920 ass-kissing1936 1820 L. Hunt Indicator No. 55 (1822) II. 22 He had a grudge against Milton for what he called his trucklings about Pandæmonium. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs iii. 14 The habit of truckling and cringing. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. ii. 140 The base truckling of an ungodly age, ever ready to surrender what is unpopular. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2019). trucklingadj. That truckles; †that is subordinate or inferior (obsolete); meanly submissive, servile. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [adjective] go-by-ground?a1300 thrall1398 abjectc1430 manly?c1430 servicious1440 serviceable1483 servile1537 tame1563 slavish1565 demiss1572 submissive1572 cringing1579 fawning1585 incrouching?1593 vassal1594 scraping1599 obsequious1602 spaniel1606 observing1609 deprostrate1610 supplea1616 vernile1623 shrugging1629 wormy1640 compliable1641 thrall-like1641 obeisant1642 inservient1646 truckling1656 cringeling1693 benecking1705 subservient1714 footman-like1776 bingeing1805 sidling1821 toadying1863 crawlsome1904 toadyish1909 crawling1941 ass-kissing1942 1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 130 The elf dares peep abroad, the pretty foole Can wag without a truckling standing-stoole. 1665 W. Temple Let. to Ld. Arlington in Wks. (1731) II. 6 Their last Resourse, which is the Protection of France,..or else a perfect truckling Peace with England. 1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons ii. 16 A small truckling State of no Name or Reputation. 1728 A. Ramsay Epist. to Burchet v The like of you..Should gar the trockling rogues look blue. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 12 In small truckling states a timely compromise with power has often been the means..of drawling out their puny existence. 1823 W. Scott Peveril II. v. 140 Unworthy or truckling compliance with tenets which my heart disowns. 1874 F. W. Farrar Silence & Voices of God iii. 64 Our beloved English Church..may, even yet, be unable to escape, by her late repentance, the Nemesis of falling axe and kindling flame due to the sluggish impotence and truckling worldliness of her 18th century. Derivatives ˈtrucklingly adv. in a truckling manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [adverb] abjectlya1500 servilely1550 bondly1553 slavishly1565 fawningly1591 demissly1598 with hat in hand1599 assentatorilya1626 hat in hand1629 cringingly1675 obsequiously1736 trucklingly1831 crawlingly1865 snivellingly1959 1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 605 He would joyfully, thankfully, trucklingly accept it. 1857 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 24 30 I could conceive women..unhappy; but not meanly, timidly, trucklingly miserable. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1820adj.1656 |
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