Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
TRUCKLE
fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up
(verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; “He is always kowtowing to his boss”
truckle
(verb) yield to out of weakness
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
truckle (plural truckles)
A small wheel; a caster or pulley.
A small wheel of cheese.
A truckle bed.
Verb
truckle (third-person singular simple present truckles, present participle truckling, simple past and past participle truckled)
To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
(intransitive) To sleep in a truckle bed.
Etymology 2
Verb
truckle (third-person singular simple present truckles, present participle truckling, simple past and past participle truckled)
(intransitive) To act in a submissive manner; to fawn, submit to a superior.
Source: Wiktionary
Truc"kle, n. Etym: [Dim. of truck a wheel; or from the kindred L. trochlea a block, sheaf containing one or more pulleys. See Truck a wheel.]
Definition: A small wheel or caster. Hudibras.
Truc"kle, v. i. Etym: [From truckle in truckle-bed, in allusion to the fact that the truckle-bed on which the pupil slept was rolled under the large bed of the master.]
Definition: To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep. "Small, trucking states." Burke. Religion itself is forced to truckle to worldly poliey. Norris.
Truc"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Truckled; p. pr. & vb. n. Truckling.]
Definition: To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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