Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to truckle
Participle: truckled
Gerund: truckling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | truckle |
| you | truckle |
| he;she;it | truckles |
| we | truckle |
| you | truckle |
| they | truckle |
Perfect
| I | have truckled |
| you | have truckled |
| he;she;it | has truckled |
| we | have truckled |
| you | have truckled |
| they | have truckled |
Past
| I | truckled |
| you | truckled |
| he;she;it | truckled |
| we | truckled |
| you | truckled |
| they | truckled |
Pluperfect
| I | had truckled |
| you | had truckled |
| he;she;it | had truckled |
| we | had truckled |
| you | had truckled |
| they | had truckled |
Future
| I | will truckle |
| you | will truckle |
| he;she;it | will truckle |
| we | will truckle |
| you | will truckle |
| they | will truckle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have truckled |
| you | will have truckled |
| he;she;it | will have truckled |
| we | will have truckled |
| you | will have truckled |
| they | will have truckled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | truckle |
| you | truckle |
| he;she;it | truckle |
| we | truckle |
| you | truckle |
| they | truckle |
Perfect
| I | have truckled |
| you | have truckled |
| he;she;it | have truckled |
| we | have truckled |
| you | have truckled |
| they | have truckled |
Imperfect
| I | truckled |
| you | truckled |
| he;she;it | truckled |
| we | truckled |
| you | truckled |
| they | truckled |
Pluperfect
| I | had truckled |
| you | had truckled |
| he;she;it | had truckled |
| we | had truckled |
| you | had truckled |
| they | had truckled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would truckle |
| you | would truckle |
| he;she;it | would truckle |
| we | would truckle |
| you | would truckle |
| they | would truckle |
Perfect
| I | would have truckled |
| you | would have truckled |
| he;she;it | would have truckled |
| we | would have truckled |
| you | would have truckled |
| they | would have truckled |
Imperative
| you | truckle |
| we | Let's truckle |
| you | truckle |
Verbs conjugated like 'truckle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'truckle'
cruckle,
ruckle,
trickle,
brickle,
buckle,
chuckle,
crackle,
crunkle,
freckle,
knuckle,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "small wheel or roller," 1397, 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 base *dhregh- "to run" (cf. O.Ir. droch "wheel," Lith. pa-drosti "to run fast"). Truckle bed "small bed on wheels that can be stowed under a larger bed" is from 1459.
2. 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.
Sample Sentences
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"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. [1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:]
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There is no doubt […] that truckling to popularity is the worst political vice. [1899, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, in War and Other Essays, Yale, published 1911, page 302:]
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Religion it self is forced to truckle to worldly policy. [1687, John Norris, A Collection of Miscellanies, consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses and Letters:]