Sidle vs Toddle - What's the difference?
sidle | toddle |
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.}}
To walk unsteadily, as a small child does.
To walk in a carefree manner.
As verbs the difference between sidle and toddle
is that sidle is to move sideways while toddle is to walk unsteadily, as a small child does.As a noun sidle
is a sideways movement.sidle
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(sidl)Derived terms
* sidle upSee also
* crablikeReferences
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* English intransitive verbstoddle
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- There he was, just toddling along.