[f. TRUCKLE v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TRUCKLE; mean submission.
c. 1665. Mrs. Hutchinson, Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1846), 475. I am free from any truckling with them.
1820. L. Hunt, Indicator, No. 55 (1822), II. 22. He had a grudge against Milton for what he called his trucklings about Pandæmonium.
1848. Thackeray, Bk. Snobs, iii. The habit of truckling and cringing.
1888. Burgon, Lives 12 Gd. Men, I. ii. 140. The base truckling of an ungodly age, ever ready to surrender what is unpopular.
