truckling

adj

1. Apt to truckle, often fawning, obsequious, ingratiating.

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)Present participle and gerund of truckle.

noun

1. Fawning; ingratiation.

   “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 […]”