truckling

nöyrtyminen Apt to truckle, often fawn fawning, obsequious, ingratiating.
(present participle of)
fawning; ingratiation
(w), 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 (..)