slidder meaning (obsolete): definition, etymology and quotations

slidder

adj

Etymology From Middle English slider, from Old English slidor, from Proto-West Germanic *slidr, from Proto-Germanic *slidraz, from Proto-Indo-European *slidʰ-ró-s, from *sleydʰ- (“to slip, glide”). Related to Old English slīdan (“to slide”). More at slide.

Obsolete Slippery.

Derived terms: slidderly, slidderness, sliddery

slidder

verb

Etymology From Middle English slyderen, slidren, from Old English sliderian (“to slip”), from Proto-West Germanic *slidrōn (“to slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip”). Cognate with Middle Dutch slideren (“to drag, train”), German schlittern (“to slip, slide”).

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

He sliddered down as best as he could.
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: