slidder

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adjective

Slippery.

“He sliddered down as best as he could.”

OriginMiddle English slider ← Old English slidor ← Proto-West Germanic *slidr →
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Meanings

slidder1

adjectiveslidder (comparative more slidder, superlative most slidder)

comparative more slidder · superlative most slidder · alternative slider · alternative slyder

  1. obsoleteSlippery.

slidder2

verbslidder (third-person singular simple present slidders, present participle sliddering, simple past and past participle sliddered)

present singular third person slidders · participle present sliddering · participle past sliddered · past sliddered · alternative slider · alternative slyder

  1. archaicdialectalTo slip or slide, especially clumsily, or in a gingerly, timorous way.

    He sliddered down as best as he could.

    1 more example

    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

Synonyms & antonyms

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slippery

Origin

slidder · adjective

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₃sleydʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₃slidʰ-ró-s
  3. Proto-Germanic*slidraz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*slidr
  5. Old Englishslidor
  6. Middle Englishslider
  7. Englishslidder

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.

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slidder · verb

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₃sleydʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₃sléydʰeti
  3. Proto-Germanic*slīdaną
  4. Proto-West Germanic*slīdan
  5. Proto-West Germanic*slidrōn
  6. Old Englishslidorian
  7. Middle Englishslideren
  8. Englishslidder

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”).

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APA

slidder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slidder

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“slidder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slidder. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “slidder,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slidder.

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