adj
Meaning 1
Slippery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Standard Lemma guide
slidder
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verb
Meaning 2
To slip or slide, especially clumsily, or in a gingerly, timorous way.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal
Examples
- He sliddered down as best as he could.
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History
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.
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”).