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Truckle vs Amenable - What's the difference?

truckle | amenable |

As a noun truckle

is a small wheel; a caster or pulley.

As a verb truckle

is to roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle or truckle can be to act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior.

As an adjective amenable is

willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.

truckle

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) trokel, trocle, trookyl, from (etyl) trocle, from .

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a small wheel; a caster or pulley
    • Derived terms
    * truckle bed

    Verb

    (truckl)
  • To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.

    • Etymology 2

    From a back formation of truckle bed , see (l).

    Verb

    (truckl)
  • to act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior
  • *
  • * Norris
    • Religion itself is forced to truckle to worldly policy.
    Derived terms
    * truckler

    References

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    amenable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
  • Willing to comply with; agreeable.
  • (math, of a group) Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.

    • Antonyms

    * unamenable

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