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skiddier

skiddier is the comparative form of skiddy.

Meaning of skiddy

Adjective

skiddy (comparative skiddier, superlative skiddiest)

  1. Likely to skid, or cause skidding.
    • I suggested that it might be a good idea to get [the motorbike] in midsummer so that I could get plenty of practice in before the skiddy weather set in, but he thought there might be too much tourist traffic going through the town […]1984, Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory
  2. Containing skidmarks.
    • “I thought those skiddy pants of yours would have been enough to frighten her away!” said Frank.
      The man did not look pleased that his underpants, which he’d washed only last month, had been described as skiddy. He sat up to inspect them.
      “Whose pants are you calling—? Oh dear.”2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

Questions about skiddier

What is skiddier the comparative form of?
Skiddier is the comparative form of skiddy.

Words near skiddier in the dictionary

  1. Skiddaw
  2. skidded
  3. skidder
  4. skidders
  5. skiddie
  6. skiddier
  7. skiddies
  8. skiddiest
  9. skiddily
  10. skiddiness
  11. skidding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skiddier (page history and authors); skiddy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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