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Cringing vs Truckling - What's the difference?

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Cringing is a related term of truckling.


As verbs the difference between cringing and truckling

is that cringing is while truckling is .

As nouns the difference between cringing and truckling

is that cringing is act of one who cringes while truckling is fawning; ingratiation.

As an adjective truckling is

apt to truckle, often fawning, obsequious, ingratiating.

cringing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Act of one who cringes.
    • the servile bowings and cringings of courtiers

    truckling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Apt to truckle, often fawning, obsequious, ingratiating.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • fawning; ingratiation
  • * (Charles Dickens), American Notes
    • Despicable trickery at elections; under-handed tamperings with public officers; cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers; shameful trucklings to mercenary knaves