truckle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small wheel; a caster or pulley.
  2. A small wheel of cheese.
  3. Ellipsis of truckle bed. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
动词 v.
  1. To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
  2. To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior. intransitive
    — "Why in the world should you spend your money, worry your family, and turn the house upside down for a parcel of girls who don't care a sixpence for you? I thought you had too much pride and sense to truckle to any mortal woman just because she wears French boots and rides in a coupe," said Jo, who, being called from the tragic climax of her novel, was not in the best mood for social enterprises. "I don't truckle, and I hate being patronized as much as you do!" returned Amy indignantly, for the two still jangled when such questions arose.
  3. To sleep in a truckle bed. intransitive

词形变化

truckles plural troccle alternative truckles present,singular,third-person truckling participle,present truckled participle,past truckled past truckles present,singular,third-person truckling participle,present truckled participle,past truckled past

词汇关系

衍生词
truckle bed

词源

词源 1
From Middle English trokel, trocle, trookyl, from Anglo-Norman trocle, from Medieval Latin trochlea (“a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys”); or from a diminutive of truck (“wheel”), formed with -le, equivalent to truck + -le.
词源 2
From a back formation of truckle bed (a bed on which a pupil slept, because it was rolled on casters into a lower position under the master's larger bed), from Middle English trookylbed. Compare also trundle bed. Assisted by false association with Middle English *trukelen, truken, trokien, trukien, from Old English trucian (“to fail, diminish”), Low German truggeln (“to flatter, fawn”), see truck.
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