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for Truckling
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Truckle \Truc"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Truckled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Truckling.]
To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
truckling
n 1: the act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble
manner or for unworthy reasons)
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "truckling":
abject, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, backscratching, beggarly,
bootlicking, brown-nosing, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching,
fawnery, fawning, flattering, flunkyism, footlicking, groveling,
handshaking, hangdog, ingratiating, ingratiation, insinuation,
kowtowing, mealymouthed, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obeisant,
obsequious, obsequiousness, on bended knee, parasitic, parasitism,
prostrate, prostration, sniveling, sponging, sycophancy,
sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, toadyism,
tufthunting
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