gliddery

English

Etymology

Compare glide.

Adjective

gliddery (comparative more gliddery, superlative most gliddery)

(UK, archaic) slippery; smooth.
- 1864, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Clara Vaughan:
  Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones.
- 1908, Henry van Dyke Jr., Out-of-Doors in The Holy Land:
  […] at last we bump alongside the little quay, and climb out on the wet, gliddery stones.

Synonyms

glidder

References

“gliddery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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