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单词 truckling
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trucklingn.

/ˈtrʌklɪŋ/
Etymology: < truckle v. + -ing suffix1. N.E.D.'s first quotation reads ‘trucking’ in most editions:c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 269 I am free from any trucking [1846 truckling] with them.]
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.

Etymology: < truckle v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtruckling.
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).
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