Meaning

2 senses

  1. An act of sidling.

    A sideways movement.

  2. A furtive advance.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Watch him sidle as he tries to avoid us.

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  2. She was sitting on the sea wall, happily chomping away at her Cornish pasty, when he came sidling up to her.

    deSie saß auf der Ufermauer und mampfte gerade genüsslich ihre „Cornish pasty“, da schlich er sich an sie heran. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

The verb is from side + -le (frequentative suffix), possibly a back-formation from sidelin

The verb is from side + -le (frequentative suffix), possibly a back-formation from sideling (“in a sidelong direction; askew, obliquely”, adverb), treating that word as the present participle of sidle.

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Forms

plural: sidles
Singularsidle
Pluralsidles

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sidewalkB1sidewayssidingsiegesierrasiesta
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