truckling
1truckling — index servile, subservient Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2Truckling — 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] …
3truckling — Synonyms and related words: abject, apple polishing, ass kissing, backscratching, beggarly, bootlicking, brown nosing, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, fawnery, fawning, flattering, flunkyism, footlicking, groveling, handshaking, hangdog …
4truckling — truck·le || trÊŒkl v. grovel, act servilely, submit …
5truckling — noun the act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble manner or for unworthy reasons) • Derivationally related forms: ↑truckle • Hypernyms: ↑obedience, ↑obeisance …
6obsequious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. abject, fawning, sycophantic, cringing, servile, truckling, compliant. See servility, respect. Ant., dominant. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. docile, submissive, cringing, slavish, sycophantic,… …
7truckle — {{11}}truckle (n.) small wheel or roller, late 14c., from Anglo Fr. trocle, from L. trochlea a small wheel, sheaf of a pulley, from Gk. trokhileia a pulley, from trokhos wheel, from trekhein to run, from PIE root *dhregh to run (Cf. O.Ir. droch… …
8subservient — 1 *auxiliary, subsidiary, contributory, ancillary, adjuvant, accessory Analogous words: *subordinate, secondary, dependent, subject 2 Subservient, servile, slavish, menial, obsequious can mean showing or characterized by extreme compliance or… …
9fawning — adj 1. servile, slavish, obsequious, Obs. obsequent, subservient, menial, Obs., Rare. vernile; submissive, docile, unassertive, compliant, acquiescent, deferential, Tomish, Uncle Tomish, tractable, mealy mouthed; groveling, crawling, creeping,… …
10flattery — n 1. compliment, salute, praise, laudation; tribute, extolment, exaltation, celebration, glorification; eulogy, eulogium, eulogization, encomium, panegyric, adulation; trumpetry, crying up, ringing or singing [s.o. s] praises, puffery, puffing up …
