sidling
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
sidling
- Alternative spelling of sideling
Related terms edit
Adverb edit
sidling
- Alternative spelling of sideling
- 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):
- 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.
Etymology 2 edit
Cognate with the above (form of sidle, from Middle English sidlyng, from which also directly sidling, above).
Verb edit
sidling
- present participle and gerund of sidle
Noun edit
sidling (plural sidlings)
- The motion of one who sidles.
- 1926, Rudyard Kipling, The Centaurs:
- Starring and shying at straws, with sidlings and plungings.