verb
slidder
Slidder (verb) means to slip or move unsteadily, often in a nervous or awkward way.
verb
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To slip or move unsteadily, often in a nervous or awkward 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."
— Rudyard Kipling, Simple Simon (1910)
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Etymology
This word came 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”). It is cognate with Middle Dutch slideren (“to drag, train”) and German schlittern (“to slip, slide”).
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What is the meaning of slidder?
"slidder" (verb) means to slip or move unsteadily, often in a nervous or awkward way.
