truckling

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

truckling
    n 1: the act of obeying meanly (especially obeying in a humble
         manner or for unworthy reasons)

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Truckle \Truc"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Truckled}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Truckling}.]
   To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "truckling":
      abject, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, backscratching, beggarly,
      bootlicking, brown-nosing, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching,
      fawnery, fawning, flattering, flunkyism, footlicking, groveling,
      handshaking, hangdog, ingratiating, ingratiation, insinuation,
      kowtowing, mealymouthed, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obeisant,
      obsequious, obsequiousness, on bended knee, parasitic, parasitism,
      prostrate, prostration, sniveling, sponging, sycophancy,
      sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, toadyism,
      tufthunting