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Webster 1913 Edition
Sidle
Si′dle
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Sidled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sidling
.] [From
Side
.] To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise;
as, to
. sidle
through a crowd or narrow openingSwift.
He . . . then
sidled
close to the astonished girl. Sir W. Scott.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sidle
SI'DLE
,Verb.
I.
1.
To go or move side foremost; as, to sidle through a crowd.2.
To lie on the side.Definition 2024
sidle
sidle
English
Noun
sidle (plural sidles)
- A sideways movement.
- A furtive advance.
Translations
A sideways movement
A furtive advance
Verb
sidle (third-person singular simple present sidles, present participle sidling, simple past and past participle sidled)
- To move sideways.
- To advance in a furtive, coy or unobtrusive manner.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:
- At an early point in these exchanges I had started to sidle to the door, and I now sidled through it, rather like a diffident crab on some sandy beach trying to avoid the attentions of a child with a spade.
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Translations
To move sideways
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To advance in a furtive, coy or unobtrusive manner
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Derived terms
- sidle up