5 letters · 6 points in Scrabble
verb move unobtrusively or furtively
verb move sideways
originThe 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0