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glidder

glidder verb: to slide.

Verb

glidder (third-person singular simple present glidders, present participle gliddering, simple past and past participle gliddered)

  1. (obsolete) To slide.
  2. (obsolete) To glaze over.
    • Madame, you take your Hen,
      Plume it, and skin it, cleanſe it o' the inwards:
      Then chop it, bones and all: adde to four ounces
      Of Carrnnacins, Pipitas, Sope of Cyprus
      Make the decoction, ſtreine it. Then diſtill it.
      And keepe it in your galley-pot well gliddered1616 October or November (first performance), Ben Jonson, The Diuell is an Asse: A Comedie […], London: […] I. B. for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act IIIJ, scene iv, page 148

Forms of glidder

third-person singular presentglidders
present participlegliddering
past participlegliddered
pastgliddered

Origin of glidder

By surface analysis, glide + -er.

Questions about glidder

What does glidder mean?
Glidder means to slide.
What part of speech is glidder?
Glidder is a verb.
What is the past tense of glidder?
The past tense of glidder is gliddered.

Words near glidder in the dictionary

  1. glidant
  2. glidants
  3. glidazamide
  4. glidden
  5. Gliddens
  6. glidder
  7. gliddered
  8. gliddering
  9. glidders
  10. gliddery
  11. Gliddon

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