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slidder

slidder adjective: slippery.

Adjective

slidder (comparative more slidder, superlative most slidder)

  1. (obsolete) Slippery.

Verb

slidder (third-person singular simple present slidders, present participle sliddering, simple past and past participle sliddered)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) To slip or slide, especially clumsily, or in a gingerly, timorous way.
    • He sliddered down as best as he could.
    • The smoke-pat sliddered over to the French shore, so I knowed Frankie was edgin' the Spanishers toward they Dutch sands where he was master.1910, Rudyard Kipling, Simple Simon

Forms of slidder

Adjective
comparativemore slidder
superlativemost slidder
alternative formslider
alternative formslyder
Verb
third-person singular presentslidders
present participlesliddering
past participlesliddered
pastsliddered

Origin of slidder

Inherited from Middle English slider, from Old English slidor (“slippery”), from Proto-West Germanic *slidr (“slippery”), from Proto-Germanic *slidraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃slidʰ-ró-s, from *h₃sleydʰ- (“to slip”) + *-rós. Related to Old English slīdan (“to slide”). More at slide.

Inherited from Middle English slideren (“to skid, slip”), from Old English slidorian (“to slide, slither”), from Proto-West Germanic *slidrōn (“to slide, slip”), from *slīdan (“to slide”) + *-rōn. Cognate with Middle Dutch slideren (“to drag, train”), German schlittern (“to slip, slide”).

Words formed from slidder

Questions about slidder

What does slidder mean?
Slidder means slippery.
What part of speech is slidder?
Slidder can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near slidder in the dictionary

  1. slid into the DMs
  2. slid off
  3. slidable
  4. slidably
  5. slidden
  6. slidder
  7. sliddered
  8. sliddering
  9. slidders
  10. sliddery
  11. slide

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