gliddery
English
Etymology
From glidder + -y. Compare Low German glidderig and Middle Dutch gliderich.[1]
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.
References
- “gliddery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “gliddery, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.