truckle
- n a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
- v yield to out of weakness
- v try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
- The imputed truckle was Sir Austen's failure to protest, last week, after two Fascist detectives in Milan had assaulted, clubbed and kicked not merely a British subject but Captain .
- I suppose it was a case of "have truckswill truckle.
- Maybe each nation chose on its own to truckle.