sidling

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noun

The motion of one who sidles.

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Meanings

sidling1

adjective
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of sideling.
adverb
  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of sideling.

    I stepped over the great western gate, and passed very gently, and sidling, through the two principal streets, only in my short waistcoat, for fear of damaging the roofs and eaves of the houses with the skirts of my coat.

    1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput)

sidling2

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of sidle
nounsidling (plural sidlings)

plural sidlings

  1. The motion of one who sidles.

    Starring and shying at straws, with sidlings and plungings.

    1926, Rudyard Kipling, The Centaurs

Origin

Cognate with the above (form of sidle, from Middle English sidlyng, from which also directly sidling, above).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

sliding
Cite this entry
APA

sidling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sidling

MLA

“sidling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sidling. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sidling,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sidling.

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