▪ I. truckling, vbl. n.
(ˈtrʌklɪŋ)
[f. truckle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb truckle; mean submission.
| c 1665 Mrs. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1846) 475, I am free from any truckling with them. 1820 L. Hunt Indicator No. 55 (1822) II. 22 He had a grudge against Milton for what he called his trucklings about Pandæmonium. 1848 Thackeray Bk. Snobs iii, The habit of truckling and cringing. 1888 Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men. I. ii. 140 The base truckling of an ungodly age, ever ready to surrender what is unpopular. |
▪ II. ˈtruckling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That truckles; † that is subordinate or inferior (obs.); meanly submissive, servile.
| 1656 [see standing-stool s.v. standing vbl. n. 11]. 1665 Temple Let. to Ld. Arlington Wks. 1731 II. 6 Their last Resourse, which is the Protection of France,..or else a perfect truckling Peace with England. 1701 Swift Contests Nobles & Com. Athens & Rome ii, A small truckling state, of no name or reputation. 1728 Ramsay Epist. to Burchet v, The like of you..Should gar the trockling rogues look blue. 1796 Burke Regic. Peace i. Wks. VIII. 87 In small truckling states a timely compromise with power has often been the means..of drawling out their puny existence. 1823 Scott Peveril xvii, Unworthy or truckling compliance with tenets which my heart disowns. 1868 Farrar Silence & V. iii. (1875) 64 Our beloved English Church..may, even yet, be unable to escape..the Nemesis..due to the sluggish impotence and truckling worldliness of her 18th Century. |
Hence ˈtrucklingly adv., in a truckling manner.
| 1831 Fraser's Mag. III. 605 He would joyfully, thankfully, trucklingly accept it. 1857 Tait's Mag. XXIV. 30, I could conceive women..unhappy; but not meanly, timidly, trucklingly miserable. |