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Sidle vs Skulk - What's the difference?

sidle | skulk |

As nouns the difference between sidle and skulk

is that sidle is a sideways movement while skulk is a group of foxes.

As verbs the difference between sidle and skulk

is that sidle is to move sideways while skulk is to conceal oneself; to hide.

sidle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sideways movement.
  • A furtive advance.

    • Verb

    (sidl)
  • To move sideways.
  • To advance in a furtive, coy or unobtrusive manner.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VIII , passage=At an early point in these exchanges I had started to sidle' to the door, and I now ' sidled through it, rather like a diffident crab on some sandy beach trying to avoid the attentions of a child with a spade.}}

    Derived terms

    * sidle up

    Related terms

    * sideling, sidling * sidelong

    See also

    * crablike

    References

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    * English intransitive verbs

    skulk

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of foxes.
    • (Wright)
  • One who skulks; a skulker.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to conceal oneself; to hide
  • * Dryden
    • Discovered and defeated of your prey, / You skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.
  • * 1852 , Charles Dickens, Bleak House ,
    • Behind dingy blind and curtain, in upper story and garret, skulking more or less under false names, false hair, false titles, false jewellery, and false histories, a colony of brigands lie in their first sleep.
  • to sneak around, sneak about
  • * 1904 , Paul Laurence Dunbar,
    • Fully a dozen of the citizens had seen him hastening toward the woods and noted his skulking air [...]
  • to shirk; to avoid obligation