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Slidder

adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Slippery. obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To slip or slide, especially clumsily, or in a gingerly, timorous way. archaic, dialectal

    "He sliddered down as best as he could."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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”).

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