truckler

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect

From truckle + -er.

Home she came, tritty-ti-trot, She asked for some dinner she left in the pot; Some she ate and some she shod, And the rest she gave to the truckler's dog. — A History of Nursery Rhymes, Percy B. Green
Still, if I believe that I can set going a better method of treatment—if I believe that I can pursue certain observations and inquiries which may be a lasting benefit to medical practice, I should be a base truckler if I allowed any consideration of personal comfort to hinder me. — Middlemarch, George Eliot

apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, groveler

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