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单词 sidle
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sidlen.

Brit. /ˈsʌɪdl/, U.S. /ˈsaɪdəl/
Forms: 1800s seydle (English regional (Cumberland)), 1800s– sidle.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: sidle v.
Etymology: < sidle v.
An act of sidling; a sidelong or oblique movement; a coy or furtive approach.
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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.

Brit. /ˈsʌɪdl/, U.S. /ˈsaɪd(ə)l/
Forms: 1500s– sidle, 1700s– sideling (present participle), 1800s sydle (English regional (Yorkshire)), 1800s– siddle (Scottish and U.S. regional).
Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: side n.1, -le suffix.
Etymology: Probably < side n.1 + -le suffix, perhaps arising from analysis of sideling adv. as a present participle (compare -ing suffix2). Compare earlier side v.1
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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
3. English regional (chiefly northern and midlands).
a. intransitive. To loiter or wander idly; to skulk around. Frequently with about. Obsolete.
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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.
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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).
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