slidder

English

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Middle English slider, from Old English slidor (“slippery”), from Proto-Germanic *slidraz (“slippery”), from Proto-Indo-European *slidʰ-ró-s, from *sleydʰ- (“to slip, glide”). Related to Old English slīdan (“to slide”). More at slide.

Adjective

slidder (comparative more slidder, superlative most slidder)

  1. (obsolete) Slippery.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English slyderen, slidren, from Old English sliderian (“to slip”), from Proto-Germanic *slidrōną (“to slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip”). Cognate with Middle Dutch slideren (“to drag, train”), German schlittern (“to slip, slide”).

Verb

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

  1. (dialectal or archaic) To slip or slide, especially clumsily, or in a gingerly, timorous way.
    He sliddered down as best as he could.

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Scots

Verb

slidder

  1. To slither.
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