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slidder en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃sleydʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *h₃slidʰ-ró-s Proto-Germanic *slidraz Proto-West Germanic *slidr Old English slidor Middle English slider English slidder Inherited from Middle English slider, from Old English slidor (“slippery”), from Proto-West Germanic *slidr (“slippery”), from Proto-Germanic *slidraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃slidʰ-ró-s, from *h₃sleydʰ- (“to slip”) + *-rós. Related to Old English slīdan (“to slide”). More at slide.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Slippery.

Forms

Deriveds

slidderness · slidderly · sliddery

slidder en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃sleydʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₃sléydʰeti Proto-Germanic *slīdaną Proto-West Germanic *slīdan Proto-West Germanic *-rōn Proto-West Germanic *slidrōn Old English slidorian Middle English slideren English slidder Inherited from Middle English slideren (“to skid, slip”), from Old English slidorian (“to slide, slither”), from Proto-West Germanic *slidrōn (“to slide, slip”), from *slīdan (“to slide”) + *-rōn. Cognate with Middle Dutch slideren (“to drag, train”), German schlittern (“to slip, slide”).

Meanings

1. (archaic, dialectal) To slip or slide, especially clumsily, or in a gingerly, timorous way.
   • He sliddered down as best as he could.
   • 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. 1910, Rudyard Kipling, Simple Simon:

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