单词 | truckle |
释义 | truckle1/ˈtrʌk(ə)l![]() noun A small barrel-shaped cheese, especially Cheddar.The gentleman in front of her announced that he had come to collect a cheddar - a whole truckle and they are big!...
OriginLate Middle English (denoting a wheel or pulley): from Anglo-Norman French trocle, from Latin trochlea 'sheaf of a pulley'. The current sense dates from the early 19th century and was originally dialect. Rhymestruckle2/ˈtrʌk(ə)l![]() verb [no object] Submit or behave obsequiously: she despised her husband, who truckled to her...
Synonyms kowtow, submit, defer, yield, bend the knee, bow and scrape, make up, be obsequious, pander, toady, prostrate oneself, grovel; fawn on, dance attendance on, curry favour with, ingratiate oneself with, abase oneself before informal suck up, crawl, lick someone's boots North American informal brown-nose Australian/New Zealand informal smoodge vulgar slang kiss/lick someone's arse Derivativestruckler
OriginMid 17th century: figuratively, from truckle bed; an earlier use of the verb was in the sense sleep in a truckle bed. |
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