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trucklings

trucklings is the plural of truckling.

Meaning of truckling

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

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Questions about trucklings

What is trucklings the plural of?
Trucklings is the plural of truckling.

Words near trucklings in the dictionary

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

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