gliddery
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare glide.
Adjective[edit]
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[edit]
References[edit]
- “gliddery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.