slidder

English

Alternative forms

• slider, slyder

Etymology 1

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

slidder (comparative more slidder, superlative most slidder)

1. (obsolete) Slippery.

Derived terms

• slidderly
• slidderness
• sliddery

Etymology 2

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

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.

   • 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

• Riddles, dreidls, lidders, riddles

Middle English

Adjective

slidder

1. Alternative form of slider

Scots

Verb

slidder

1. To slither.

Swedish

Etymology

From sladder, likely via sliddersladder. First attested in 1855.

Noun

slidder n

1. (colloquial) nonsense

Declension

Declension of slidder
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	slidder	sliddret	—	—
Genitive	slidders	sliddrets	—	—

Further reading

• slidder in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• slidder in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• slidder in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)