different between truckling vs crawling

English

Adjective

truckling (comparative more truckling, superlative most truckling)

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

Verb

truckling

1. present participle of truckle

Noun

truckling (plural trucklings)

1. fawning; ingratiation
   • 1842, Charles Dickens, American Notes

     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 […]

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?k???l??/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?k??l??/
• Rhymes: -??l??

Verb

crawling

1. Present participle and gerund of crawl.

Noun

crawling (plural crawlings)

1. The motion of something that crawls.
   • 1840-41, Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

     Miss Brass […] devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.

Anagrams

• claw ring