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Truckle vs Truckie - What's the difference?

truckle | truckie |

As nouns the difference between truckle and truckie

is that truckle is a small wheel; a caster or pulley while truckie is a truck driver.

As a verb truckle

is to roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.

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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    truckie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A truck driver.
  • * 2005 , “Marcus”, quoted in Rose McCrohan, Chapter 3: I Don?t Care If I Live or Die'', Keith D. Gilbert (editor), ''Sexuality, Sport and the Culture of Risk , Volume 6, page 45,
    • I met up with a truckie''' and stayed on the road with him for most of the two months. I learnt how to drive the truck, even though I didn't have a truck or even a car license. I got to know other '''truckies and they used to ask for me on the CB radio.
  • * 2007 , Ron Davidson, Fremantle Impressions , Fremantle Press, page 282,
    • On the day of the funeral truckies on their way to the container wharf slow down as they pass the Railway Hotel and sound their earth-shattering horns.
  • * 2002 , Rob Van Driesum, Outback Australia: Kakadu, Uluru and Kangaroos , Lonely Planet, page 452,
    • Look for the epitaph to a local female truckie outside the roadhouse.