Synonyms of the word truckle


TRUCKLEBED - BLANDISH - BOOTLICK - FAWN - FLATTER - KOTOW - KOWTOW - RELENT - SOFTEN - TOADY - TRUNDLE - YIELD

truckle

  • n. A small wheel; a caster or pulley.
  • n. A small wheel of cheese.
  • v. To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
  • v. (intransitive) To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior.

bed

  • n. A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on.
  • n. A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
  • n. (heading) A layer or surface.
  • v. Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
  • v. Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.

blandish

  • v. (transitive) To persuade someone by using flattery; to cajole.
  • v. (transitive) To praise someone dishonestly; to flatter or butter up.

bootlick

  • v. (transitive) To seek favor from by fawning, servile behavior.
  • v. (intransitive) To engage in fawning, servile behavior.
  • n. (US) A toady or sycophant.

fawn

  • n. A young deer.
  • n. A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
  • n. (obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.
  • adj. Of the fawn colour.
  • v. (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.
  • v. (intransitive) To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
  • v. (intransitive) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).
  • v. (intransitive, of a dog) To wag its tail, to show devotion.

flatter

  • n. A type of set tool used by blacksmiths.
  • n. A flat-faced fulling hammer.
  • n. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips such as watch springs.
  • n. Someone who flattens, purposely or accidently. Also flattener.
  • n. (Britain, New Zealand, slang) Someone who lives in a rented flat.
  • adj. comparative form of flat: more flat.
  • v. To compliment someone, often insincerely and sometimes to win favour.
  • v. To enhance someone's vanity by praising them.
  • v. To portray someone to advantage.
  • v. To encourage or cheer someone with (usually false) hope.

kotow

  • n. Alternative spelling of kowtow.
  • v. Alternative spelling of kowtow.

kowtow

  • v. (intransitive) To kneel and bow low enough to touch one’s forehead to the ground.
  • v. (intransitive) To bow very deeply.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To act in a very submissive manner.
  • n. The act of kowtowing.

relent

  • n. Stay; stop; delay.
  • v. To become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to soften in temper; to become…
  • v. To slacken; to abate.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To lessen, make less severe or fast.
  • v. (dated) To become less rigid or hard; to soften; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce.

soften

  • v. (transitive) To make something soft or softer.
  • v. (transitive) To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).
  • v. (transitive) To make less harsh.
  • v. (intransitive) To become soft or softer.

toady

  • n. A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.
  • n. (archaic) A coarse, rustic woman.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with to) To behave like a toady (to someone).

trundle

  • n. A low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed.
  • n. A small wheel or roller.
  • n. A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
  • n. (engineering) A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
  • n. (Can we verify([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +]) this sense?) The collective…
  • v. (transitive) To wheel or roll, especially by pushing.
  • v. (transitive) To (cause to) roll slowly and heavily on wheels.
  • v. (intransitive) Move heavily (on wheels).
  • v. (transitive) To move (physically).
  • v. (intransitive) To move, often heavily or clumsily.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along.

yield

  • v. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
  • v. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
  • v. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
  • v. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
  • v. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
  • v. To produce as return, as from an investment.
  • v. (mathematics) To produce as a result.
  • v. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
  • v. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo…
  • v. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
  • n. (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
  • n. A product; the quantity of something produced.
  • n. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.

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