Sibling vs Sidling - What's the difference?
sibling | sidling |
A person who shares same parents. One's brother or sister.
The motion of one who sidles.
* (Rudyard Kipling), The Centaurs
As nouns the difference between sibling and sidling
is that sibling is a person who shares same parents one's brother or sister while sidling is the motion of one who sidles.As an adjective sidling is
.As an adverb sidling is
.As a verb sidling is
.sibling
English
Noun
(wikipedia sibling) (en noun)- None of my siblings are married yet. .
Derived terms
* nibling * siblinghood *stepsibling *adoptive sibling *milk sibling *full sibling *siblingly *little sib *half sib *stepsib *sib-in-law *fullsib *foster sib *adoptive sibsidling
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.