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slidder

The English word “slidder” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Slippery.

verb

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

Etymology

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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