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truckling

truckling adjective: apt to truckle, often fawning, obsequious, ingratiating. Also the present participle and gerund of truckle.

Adjective

truckling (comparative more truckling, superlative most truckling)

  1. Apt to truckle, often fawning, obsequious, ingratiating.

Noun

truckling (plural trucklings)

  1. Fawning; ingratiation.
    • 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 […]1842, Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

Also used as

truckling is also the present participle and gerund of truckle.

Forms of truckling

Adjective
comparativemore truckling
superlativemost truckling
Noun
pluraltrucklings

Words formed from truckling

Questions about truckling

What does truckling mean?
Truckling means apt to truckle, often fawning, obsequious, ingratiating.
What part of speech is truckling?
Truckling can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near truckling in the dictionary

  1. trucklet
  2. trucklets
  3. trucklike
  4. truckline
  5. trucklines
  6. truckling
  7. trucklingly
  8. trucklings
  9. truckload
  10. truckloads
  11. truckmaker

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