truckle
truckle1
noun
truckle2
verb
truckler
noun
语源
noun
- a small barrel-shaped cheese, especially cheddar
筒形小奶酪（尤指切达干酪）
- 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 cent. and was originally dialect
truckle2
verb
- [no obj.]submit or behave obsequiously
屈从，讨好
she despised her husband, who truckled to her.
她看不起事事屈从于她的丈夫。
truckler
noun
语源
- mid 17th cent.: figuratively, from truckle bed; an earlier use of the verb was in the sense sleep in a truckle bed
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