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Webster 1913 Edition


Slidder

Slid′der

,
Verb.
T.
[AS.
sliderian
. See
Slide
,
Verb.
T.
]
To slide with interruption.
[Obs.]
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Slidder

SLID'DER

,
Verb.
I.
[See Slide.] To slide with interruption. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


slidder

slidder

English

Alternative forms

Adjective

slidder (comparative more slidder, superlative most slidder)

  1. (obsolete) Slippery.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English slyderen, slidren, from Old English sliderian (to slip), from Proto-Germanic *slidrōną (to slide), from Proto-Indo-European *sleidh- (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)

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

Scots

Verb

slidder

  1. To slither.