sidelong
adverb
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L199434 on Wikidata ↗adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪd.lɑŋ/ / /ˈsaɪd.lɒŋ/
adj
Etymology: 1520s, from Middle English sidlyng (early 14th century), from side + -lyng (“(frequentative)”) (modern English -le (“(frequentative)”)). Reanalyzed as side + long.
- Directed to the side; sideways.
“He cast me a sidelong glance.”
- Slanting or sloping; oblique.
- Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward.
“She made some sidelong remarks about his manhood.”
- Along the side of something.
“The passenger train was signalled from one of the west end bay platforms along the Down South Line; as it passed through a crossover to the Up South Line the freight train, which had been travelling slowly to the Up South Line, over-ran the signal protecting the crossover and came into sidelong collision with it.”
adv
Etymology: 1520s, from Middle English sidlyng (early 14th century), from side + -lyng (“(frequentative)”) (modern English -le (“(frequentative)”)). Reanalyzed as side + long.
- Towards the side; sideways.
- obliquely