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slidder¹

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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.

adjective more slidder · most slidder · slider · slyder

  1. obsolete Slippery.

slidder²

Where it comes from

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”).

verb slidders · sliddering · sliddered · slider · slyder

  1. archaic, dialectal To slip or slide, especially clumsily, or in a gingerly, timorous way. He sliddered down as best as he could.

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@misc{slidder_2026,
  title = {slidder},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/slidder},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}