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▪ I. † ˈsidy, a.1 dial. Obs.
(See quot.)
1674Ray S. & E. Co. Wds. 77 Sidy: surly, moody. Suss. [Hence in later glossaries.]
▪ II. sidy, a.2 colloq.|ˈsaɪdɪ|
[f. side n.2]
Inclined to ‘put on side’; conceited.
1898Woman at Home Oct. 57/1 Tommy wasn't half a bad fellow once... I never counted him sidey. 1899Daily News 22 June 7/3 A ‘sidy chap’ is universally detested, and every chance is seized to ‘take him down a peg’. 1913C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. ii. iii. 179 The porter was frightfully sick at having to give me a telegram. He is a sidy swine. 1935‘N. Blake’ Question of Proof viii. 154 ‘It is possible that he could have thought he had a chance of being elected?’ ‘Oh, I should think so; he was sidey enough.’ 1946B. Marshall George Brown's Schooldays xxviii. 115 He couldn't very well put himself in first because people might think it rather sidey. |