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gliddery

gliddery adjective: slippery; smooth.

Adjective

gliddery (comparative more gliddery, superlative most gliddery)

  1. (UK, archaic) Slippery; smooth.
    • Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones.1864, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Clara Vaughan
    • […]at last we bump alongside the little quay, and climb out on the wet, gliddery stones.1908, Henry van Dyke Jr., Out-of-Doors in The Holy Land

Forms of gliddery

comparativemore gliddery
superlativemost gliddery

Origin of gliddery

From glidder + -y. Compare Low German glidderig and Middle Dutch gliderich.

Questions about gliddery

What does gliddery mean?
Gliddery means slippery; smooth.
What part of speech is gliddery?
Gliddery is an adjective.

Words near gliddery in the dictionary

  1. Gliddens
  2. glidder
  3. gliddered
  4. gliddering
  5. glidders
  6. gliddery
  7. Gliddon
  8. glide
  9. glide bomb
  10. glide bombed
  11. glide bombing

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