slidder

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

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verb

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"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."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃sleydʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *h₃slidʰ-ró-s Proto-Germanic *slidraz Proto-West Germanic *slidr Old English slidor Middle English slider English slidder 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.

more slidder (comparative) most slidder (superlative) slider (alternative) slyder (alternative) slidders (present, singular) sliddering (participle, present) sliddered (participle, past) sliddered (past)

slidderly slidderness sliddery