单词 | sidle |
释义 | sidlen. An act of sidling; a sidelong or oblique movement; a coy or furtive approach. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [noun] > furtively sidling1756 sidle?1805 ?1805 Oliver's Comic Songs 25 Her quizzing glass, her leer and sidle. 1811 M. Lonsdale Th' Upshot in F. Jollie Sketch of Cumberland Manners 10 An wheyle they skew't, and tew't, and swat, Wa' monney a weeary seydle. 1820 J. H. Reynolds Fancy 79 With a sidle My weary Pegasus doth lift his leg, Seeming to ask me just to pull the bridle. 1849 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour xxiii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 105 Turning the sidle into a stately sail, with a haughty sort of sneer. 1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 394/1 The final sidle up to dock was a very inglorious effort of poling. 1900 Longman's Mag. Apr. 533 Susan coming forward with a coquettish sidle. 1978 Alcalde (Univ. Texas) Jan.–Feb. 17/2 I..drop my envelope in the collection plate preparatory to a slow sidle away from the up-front generation. 2004 M. Bowen Unforced Error iii. 8 Continuing his sidle toward the door, he spotted a bathrobe hanging from its back. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sidlev. 1. a. intransitive. To move or go sideways or obliquely; to edge along, esp. in a furtive or inconspicuous manner, or while looking in another direction; to approach a person or thing in this manner (now frequently with up). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > leisurely or carelessly lop1587 dander?1590 dandle?1590 lolla1657 saunter1671 sidle1697 sail1699 toddle1726 lollop1745 to loll it1796 waltz1862 faffle1869 flane1876 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > move sideways [verb (intransitive)] > furtively sidle1697 1697 J. Vanbrugh Æsop iii A crab-fish once her daughter told..She could not bear to see her go, Sidle, sidle, to and fro. 1711 J. Swift Argument abolishing Christianity in Misc. Prose & Verse 171 No more than one can get in at a time, and that not, without stooping, and sideling, and squeezing his Body. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. iv. 22 Sir Harry..sidled to the door,..and then slipped out. 1797 E. Inchbald Wives as they Were iv. iii. 70 (stage direction) Lady Mary observes him with attention, then sidles up to him. 1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. July 36/1 I used to admire how he sidled along, keeping clear of secular contacts. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) vii, in Writings I. 63 He sidled into a corner of the room. 1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. v. 158 I was put on big horses that jumped, and reared, and circled, and sidled. 1928 Cent. Mag. May 60/1 Half-paralyzed with dread of the discovery by our tattlingest sister, we sidled furtively into the tool-shed. 1934 ‘J. M. Hall’ Anecdota Americana 2nd Ser. 55 Captain Taylor..was happy when a woman sidled up to him on the dark street and inquired, ‘How about a bit of nasty, baby?’. 1963 N. Bawden Secret Passage viii. 125 Ben sidled up to Mary and tugged her sleeve. 2010 J. O'Connor Ghost Light (2011) ii. 26 She has noticed him lately, often early in the mornings, sidling along the Terrace in an underhand way. b. intransitive. In extended use. ΚΠ 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. i. 2 Ever and anon straddling out, or sidling into some..digression. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 92 Ye know the foot-path sidles down the hill. 1835 L. Hunt in Leigh Hunt's London Jrnl. & Printing Machine 28 Nov. 409/2 Till ‘Smith's Terrace’, or some such interloper, came sidling in front of it with forty new tenements. 1866 R. Chambers Ess. 1st Ser. 151 He sidles into conversation with some overseer of the workmen. 1920 A. G. Bradley Bk. Severn iii. 65 The more open and hillier road which sidles along the northern slope of the vale. 1982 P. Barker Union Street i. 45 The men..felt the outrage if anything more deeply but sidled past the subject, wincing. 2006 D. G. Schwartz Roll Bones xvi. 369 Most states first sidled up to a relatively friendly form of gambling: horse racing. c. intransitive. New Zealand (chiefly Mountaineering). To make one's way in a horizontal or transverse direction along a steep slope by a series of sideways movements; = traverse v. 22. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > go transversely about an incline sidle1867 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > mountaineer or climb [verb (intransitive)] > climbing techniques glissade1837 sidle1867 traverse1897 abseil1908 to back up1909 bridge1909 to rope down1935 jam1950 rappel1950 prusik1959 solo1964 free-climb1968 hand jam1968 jumar1969 layback1972 pendule1973 top-rope1974 crimp1989 free solo1992 1867 Colonist (Nelson, N.Z.) 28 June 3/4 Sidled along the base of a precipitous cliff, over detached blocks of rock. 1896 N.Z. Alpine Jrnl. 9 189 We sidled along the base of a mass of rugged peaks known as the Hawk's nest. 1926 F. W. Hilgendorf in I. D. Blair Life & Work at Canterbury Agric. College (1956) 83 There was heavy snow as we sidled along above Bealey gully. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Oct. 295/1 Sowing was done following the contours and from higher to lower altitudes, as a man tends to climb when sidling. 1971 N.Z. Listener 19 Apr. 56/5 They got up the lower scree, sidled across the first face into a couloir, but they were getting bombed so they cramponed up to just below a gendarme. 2014 Nelson (N.Z.) Mail (Nexis) 11 Jan. 13 We climbed and we climbed, unable to sidle across the mountainside of broken rock and steep dangerous rock slides. 2. transitive. To turn or direct (a person or thing) to the side; to cause to move in a sideways or oblique direction, esp. slowly, carefully, or furtively. Also (and in earliest use) figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > cause to move sideways [verb (transitive)] wind13.. sidle1779 sidestep1905 side-slip1906 crab1929 1779 T. Twining Let. 3 Sept. in Recreations & Stud. Country Clergyman (1882) 62 Let us at least..give it a little gloss of novelty, by spelling it Tuineing,..or something that shall sidle us away a little from those vulgar tribes of Western Twinings and Twynings. 1846 C. G. F. Gore Sketches Eng. Char. 138 Shoving, sidling, and swerving the said ill-fitting drawer into its original position. 1855 R. Browning Old Pictures in Florence x, in Men & Women II. 35 Not sidling a glance at the coin of their neighbour. 1887 A. Jessopp Arcady iii. 90 He sidled his horse towards the fence and picked a rosy apple from the bough. 1943 G. Greene Ministry of Fear i. i. 17 He pushed his great deformed shoulder into the light..sidling his body to the chair's edge. 2011 Fayetteville (N. Carolina) Observer (Nexis) 25 Dec. Wade sidled the van up to the curb. a. intransitive. To loiter or wander idly; to skulk around. Frequently with about. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > move or go slowly [verb (intransitive)] creepc1175 lugc1400 to hold (also keep) foot withc1438 crawlc1460 lounge?a1513 slug1565 drawl1566 draggle1577 fodge1581 snail1582 laggerc1620 slagger1622 snail1628 flod1674 delay1690 to drag one’s slow length along1711 soss1711 loiter1728 trail1744 sidle1781 soodle1821 linger1826 ooze1847 slope1851 laggard1864 dawdle1872 tiddle1882 oozle1958 pootle1973 1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 95/2 Sidle, to saunter. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘To sidle about a place,’ to lurk or skulk about. 1841 J. Foster Let. 17 July in Life & Corr. J. Foster (1846) II. 402 Just sidling about to see sights. 1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. Sidle, to lounge about for some ulterior purpose. 1886 J. Hartley Yorks. Tales 2nd Ser. 89 Onny o' them forrad young misses at sydle abaat Briggate. b. intransitive. To attend a person in an obsequious or coaxing manner. Frequently with about. Obsolete.In quot. 1904 perhaps transitive: to attend obsequiously, to coax slyly. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > be servile [verb (intransitive)] fawnc1325 crouch1528 jouk1573 crawl1576 creep1581 spaniel1599 grovel1605 spanielize1641 cringec1660 to lick the ground1667 truckle1680 to kiss (a person's) arse, behind, bum1705 toad-eat1766 snool1786 to eat (any one's) toads1788 kowtow1826 sidle1828 toady1861 to knock head1876 ass-lick1937 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > be slothful or lazy [verb (intransitive)] > idle or loaf luskc1330 lubber1530 to play the truant, -s1560 lazea1592 lazy1612 meecha1625 lounge1671 saunter1672 sloungea1682 slive1707 soss1711 lolpoop1722 muzz1758 shack1787 hulkc1793 creolize1802 maroon1808 shackle1809 sidle1828 slinge1834 sossle1837 loaf1838 mike1838 to sit around1844 hawm1847 wanton1847 sozzle1848 mooch1851 slosh1854 bum1857 flane1876 slummock1877 dead-beat1881 to lop about1881 scow1901 scowbank1901 stall1916 doss1937 plotz1941 lig1960 loon1969 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) ‘To sidle about a person,’ to attend him obsequiously. 1881 A. Parker Gloss. Words Oxfordshire 97 You be aulus a sidlin' about round ee, you be. 1904 J. Wright in Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 429/1 [W. Yorks.] He awlus sidles an' maks up ti fresh fooak. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.?1805v.1697 |
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