slidder
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology 1
editFrom 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
editslidder (comparative more slidder, superlative most slidder)
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editFrom 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
editslidder (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
editMiddle English
editAdjective
editslidder
- Alternative form of slider
Scots
editVerb
editslidder
- To slither.
Swedish
editEtymology
editFrom sladder, likely via sliddersladder. First attested in 1855.
Noun
editslidder n
Declension
editDeclension of slidder | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | slidder | sliddret | — | — |
Genitive | slidders | sliddrets | — | — |
Further reading
edit- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sleydʰ-
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- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
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- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
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