truckle

1. 1.

   a low bed to be slid under a higher bed

   Synonymstrundle bedtrundletruckle bed

   Broaderbed

Other forms of truckle

plural

truckles·

past tense

truckled·

present participle

truckling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about truckle

What does truckle mean?

truckle means "yield to out of weakness". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in truckle?

truckle has 2 syllables: truc-kle. The stress falls on "kle".

What is another word for truckle?

Close synonyms include fawn, toady, bootlick, kowtow, kotow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is truckle a common word?

truckle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.