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Definition of 'sidle'English
Noun
( en-noun)
A sideways movement.
A furtive advance.
Verb
(sidl)
To move sideways.
To advance in a furtive, coy or unobtrusive manner.
* {{quote-book
|year=1960
|author=
|title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
|section=chapter VIII
|passage=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.}}
Derived terms
* sidle up
Related terms
* sideling, sidling
* sidelong
See also
* crablike
References
Similar to 'sidle'stole, settle, stale, style, stile, saddle, stele, stelae, soodle, stoole, suttle, stolae, sutile, setule, sutle, stylee
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