Etymology

slithery

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Today it means: That slithers; that moves like a snake. Full definition →

Middle English slidery
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The story

  1. Middle English · inherited fromslidery
  2. English todayslithery

From Middle English slidery; equivalent to and remodelled as slither + -y.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishslidery all →

sliddery

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.