Word a Day
sidle
What does sidle mean?
sidle (verb): move unobtrusively or furtively.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use sidle in a sentence?
- Watch him sidle as he tries to avoid us. (Tatoeba sentence #12237351 by Tangobango, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce sidle?
/ˈsaɪdəl/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does sidle come from?
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.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “sidle” mean?
permeate or penetrate gradually
Not quite: that's what leach means.
move unobtrusively or furtively
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to say, state, or perform again
Not quite: that's what reiterate means.
to get in the way of; to hinder
Not quite: that's what impede means.
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