truckling

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Adjective

truckling

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

Verb

1. present participle of truckle#English|truckle

Noun

truckling (plural trucklings)

1. fawning; ingratiation
   • 1842, Charles Dickens, American Notes

     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 […]

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