English Explanatory Dictionary

slidder

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Slippery.
verb
  1. To slip or slide, especially clumsily, or in a gingerly, timorous way.

Word forms

slidder more slidder most slidder slider slyder slidders sliddering sliddered

Etymology

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

Derived words

slidderly slidderness sliddery
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