sidled

Verb

sidle (third-person singular simple present sidles, present participle sidling, simple past and past participle sidled)

1. (also, ambitransitive, figuratively) To (cause something to) move sideways.
   • [F]rom the circle of delighted auditors listening to the gentillesses of the pink cockatoo, who was sidling on his stand in the sunshine, a whole party of the Beresfords caught sight of me, and in a minute I was surrounded; [...]1836, [Catherine Gore], The Diary of a Désennuyée. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Published by Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 176–177
2. (also, ambitransitive, figuratively) In the intransitive sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner.
   • There was one little prim old lady, of very smiling and good-humoured appearance, who came sidling up to me from the end of a long passage, [...]1842, Charles Dickens, “Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York.”, in American Notes for General Circulation. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, pages...

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