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Definition of Truckler
1. Noun. Someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect.
Generic synonyms: Ass-kisser, Crawler, Lackey, Sycophant, Toady
Derivative terms: Bootlick, Fawn, Fawn, Grovel, Grovel, Truckle, Truckle
Definition of Truckler
1. n. One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.
Definition of Truckler
1. Noun. one who truckles ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Truckler
1. one that truckles [n -S] - See also: truckles
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truckler
Literary usage of Truckler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nixola of Wall Street by Felix Grendon (1919)
"... she had become a polished and versatile truckler — not an unctuous, ...
but a suave, masterful truckler. She could terrify those above her and terrorize ..."
2. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1833)
"truckler,-—Certainly I am, for things cannot remain as they are ; and it is a
... truckler.—A despotism, if you choose to call it so, (and I don't mind ..."
3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"... if I should turn out a very weather-cock and a most pitiful truckler, you will
have data for the exercise of faith maugre common-sense, common justice, ..."
4. George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals by George Eliot (1885)
"... if I should turn out a very weathercock and a most pitiful truckler, you will
have data for the exercise of faith maugre common- sense, common justice, ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"This chaos of cramped wills and clanging tongues Each seems to be half tyrant
and half truckler. He '11 swell and swagger here, there crouch and crook, ..."
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