Sidle

Quick meaning: Sidle is a verb meaning (ambitransitive, also figuratively) To (cause something to) move sideways.

Meaning

(ambitransitive, also figuratively) To (cause something to) move sideways.

More Meanings

1. An act of sidling.
2. (ambitransitive, also figuratively) In the intransitive sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner.

Example Sentences

As the moon sidles up / Must she sidle up, / As trips the scared moon / Away must she trip, [...]

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.

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, [...]

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.

Word Forms

• sidles
• sidling
• sidled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include edge, inch, skew, slither, scoot, scooch.

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