Slidder vs Slidden - What's the difference?
slidder | slidden |
(dialectal, or, archaic) To slip or slide, especially clumsily, or in a gingerly, timorous way.
(obsolete)
* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=Herman Melville, title=White Jacket, chapter=, edition=
, passage=These are ponderous flat stones with long ropes at each end, by which the stones are slidden about, to and fro, over the wet and sanded decks; a most wearisome, dog-like, galley-slave employment. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1898, author=Marshall Mather, title=Lancashire Idylls (1898), chapter=, edition=
, passage=In a minute more the spell of silence broke, and a roar, louder than before, told that the little one had touched earth without injury, save hands all raw from friction with the rope along which she had slidden . }}
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between slidder and slidden
is that slidder is (obsolete) slippery while slidden is (obsolete).As verbs the difference between slidder and slidden
is that slidder is (dialectal|or|archaic) to slip or slide, especially clumsily, or in a gingerly, timorous way while slidden is (obsolete).As an adjective slidder
is (obsolete) slippery.slidder
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* (l), (l)Etymology 1
From (etyl) slider, from (etyl) . More at (l).Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) slyderen, slidren, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- He sliddered down as best as he could.
slidden
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