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truckle
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[ˈtrʌkl], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a small barrel-shaped cheese, especially Cheddar
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Origin
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late Middle English (denoting a wheel or pulley): from Anglo-Norman French trocle, from Latin trochlea ‘sheaf of a pulley’. The current sense dates from the early 19th century and was originally dialect
[ˈtrʌkl], (Verb)
Definitions:
- submit or behave obsequiously
(e.g: he will neither bow nor truckled to any kind of control)
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Origin
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mid 17th century: figuratively, from truckle bed; an earlier use of the verb was in the sense sleep in a truckle bed
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