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English
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)
- (obsolete) Slippery.
Derived terms
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)
- (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.
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Middle English
Adjective
slidder
- Alternative form of slider
Scots
Verb
slidder
- To slither.
Swedish
Etymology
From sladder, likely via sliddersladder. First attested in 1855.
Noun
slidder n
- (colloquial) nonsense
Declension
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