Sidling vs Idling - What's the difference?
sidling | idling |
The motion of one who sidles.
* (Rudyard Kipling), The Centaurs
As verbs the difference between sidling and idling
is that sidling is while idling is .As nouns the difference between sidling and idling
is that sidling is the motion of one who sidles while idling is an idle period; something done idly.As an adjective sidling
is .As an adverb sidling
is .sidling
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(head)Adverb
(head)Etymology 2
Cognate with the above (form of sidle, from (etyl) sidlyng, from which also directly sidling , above).Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Starring and shying at straws, with sidlings and plungings.