Sidle vs Tiptoe - What's the difference?
sidle | tiptoe |
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.}}
Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.
* Cowper
To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.
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As nouns the difference between sidle and tiptoe
is that sidle is a sideways movement while tiptoe is the tips of one's toes collectively.As verbs the difference between sidle and tiptoe
is that sidle is to move sideways while tiptoe is to walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground.As an adjective tiptoe is
standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes.sidle
English
Verb
(sidl)Derived terms
* sidle upSee also
* crablikeReferences
Anagrams
* English intransitive verbstiptoe
English
(wikipedia tiptoe)Alternative forms
* tip-toe * tippytoe, tippy-toeDerived terms
* on tiptoeAdjective
(-)- Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
- above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory
- with tiptoe step
Verb
(d)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.}}
