different between crablike vs sidle

English

Etymology

crab +? -like. In sense “moving sideways”, due to crab’s sideways walk.

Adjective

crablike (comparative more crablike, superlative most crablike)

1. Having some characteristics of a crab
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:

     It was in this stream, I recalled from newspaper items, that one of the morbid crablike beings had been seen floating after the floods.

2. Walking or moving sideways

Translations

See also

• sidle

Anagrams

• bark lice, barklice

English

Etymology

The verb is from side +? -le (frequentative suffix), possibly a back-formation from sideling (“in a sidelong direction; askew, obliquely”, adverb), treating that word as the present participle of sidle.

The noun is derived from the verb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sa?dl/
• (General American) enPR: s?d-(?)l, IPA^(key): /?sa?d?l/
• Rhymes: -a?d(?)l
• Hyphenation: sid?le

Verb

sidle (third-person singular simple present sidles, present participle sidling, simple past and past participle sidled)

1. (transitive, intransitive, also figuratively) To (cause something to) move sideways. [from late 17th c.]
2. (transitive, intransitive, also figuratively) In the intransitive sense often followed by up: to (cause something to) advance in a coy, furtive, or unobtrusive manner.

Derived terms

• sidling (noun)

Related terms

Translations

See also

• crablike

Noun

sidle (plural sidles)

1. An act of sidling.
   1. A sideways movement.
   2. A furtive advance.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Diels, Seidl, delis, idles, isled, leids, siled, sleid, slide

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i.dl?/

Noun

sidle n

1. locative singular of sid?o