truckle

1. (intransitive) To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior.Examples: ""Why in the world should you spend your money, worry your family, and turn the house upside down for a parcel of girls who don't care a sixpence for you? I thought you had too much pride and sense to truckle to any mortal woman just because she wears French boots and rides in a coupe," said Jo, who, being called from the tragic climax of her novel, was not in the best mood for social enterprises. "I don't truckle, and I hate being patronized as much as you do!" returned Amy indignantly, for the two still jangled when such questions arose."; "There is no doubt […] that truckling to popularity is the worst political vice."; "Religion it self is forced to truckle to worldly policy."intransitive