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Word entry · 5 letters

sidle

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"Move sideways"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈsaɪdl/Part of speech verbSorted deilsStarts with SEnds with E1 clues
1S2I3D4L5E

Definitions

  1. move sideways

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • You could drive a band of hosses up the steepest kind of hill but nobody that I ever knowed could drive a bunch straight down (that goes with cows, too)—they'd sidle it every time.
  • There was one little prim old lady, of very smiling and good-humoured appearance, who came sidling up to me from the end of a long passage, [...]
  • A sharper sidleth up to him, / "Why bettest thou not?" saith he. / For a moment's space the stranger's face / Was a wondrous thing to see.

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