truckle
noun
[ ˈtrʌk(ə)l ]
• a small barrel-shaped cheese, especially Cheddar.
Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a wheel or pulley): from Anglo-Norman French trocle, from Latin trochlea ‘sheaf of a pulley’. The current sense dates from the early 19th century and was originally dialect.
truckle
verb
• submit or behave obsequiously.
• "he will neither bow nor truckled to any kind of control"
Similar:
kowtow,
submit,
defer,
yield,
bend the knee,
bow and scrape,
make up,
be obsequious,
pander,
toady,
prostrate oneself,
grovel,
fawn on,
dance attendance on,
curry favour with,
ingratiate oneself with,
abase oneself before,
suck up,
crawl,
lick someone's boots,
brown-nose,
smoodge,
kiss/lick someone's arse,
kiss/lick someone's ass,
Opposite:
defy,
stand up to,
Origin:
mid 17th century: figuratively, from truckle bed; an earlier use of the verb was in the sense sleep in a truckle bed .
