sidling

noun

sidling

noun

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

1

The motion of one who sidles.

  • Starring and shying at straws, with sidlings and plungings.1926, Rudyard Kipling, The Centaurs:

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