slidder
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
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.
Adjective edit
slidder (comparative more slidder, superlative most slidder)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English slyderen, slidren, from Old English sliderian (“to slip”), from Proto-West Germanic *slidrōn (“to slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip”). Cognate with Middle Dutch slideren (“to drag, train”), German schlittern (“to slip, slide”).
Verb edit
slidder (third-person singular simple present slidders, present participle sliddering, simple past and past participle sliddered)
- (dialectal or archaic) To slip or slide, especially clumsily, or in a gingerly, timorous way.
- He sliddered down as best as he could.
- 1910, Rudyard Kipling, Simple Simon:
- 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.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Adjective edit
slidder
- Alternative form of slider
Scots edit
Verb edit
slidder
- To slither.
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From sladder, likely via sliddersladder. First attested in 1855.
Noun edit
slidder n
Declension edit
| Declension of slidder | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | slidder | sliddret | — | — |
| Genitive | slidders | sliddrets | — | — |