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ˈsliddery, a. Now dial.
Forms: 3 slid(d)ri, 5 slydrye, 6 slyddry, -rie, 6–7 slidrie, 8 slidd'ry, 8–9 sliddry; 3–5 slideri, 4 -ery, slydery, sledery (6 Sc. -erie), 5, 7 (9) slidderie, 9 sliddery.
[f. slidder v. + -y. Cf. MDu. sliderich.]
1. Slippery; on which one may readily slip.
a1225Ancr. R. 252 To wel we hit wuteð hu þe wei of þisse worlde is sliddri. c1280in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1875) 221 Bi a luytel bosk he tok his hondlyng, And set his feet on a slidri bas. c1325Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 160 [The way is] slidery. 1382Wyclif Jer. xxxviii. 22 Thei han drenchid thee doun in the myre, and in the sledery thing thi feet. c1480Henryson Fables, Preach. Swallow xxxi, Slonkis and slaik maid slidderie with the sleit. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. ii. xxxix. 163 They can unuthe stande upon theyre fete so slydrye it is. 1513Douglas æneid x. vi. 42 Slyddry glar so from wallis went That oft thar feyt was smyttyn vp on loft. a1724in Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1876) II. 219 Is not this warld a slidd'ry ball? And thinks men strange to catch a fall? 1827J. Wilson Noctes Ambr. Wks. 1855 II. 9 Slimy and sliddery as the sea-weed. 1874A. Hislop Sc. Anecd. 147 The floor was as sliddery as ice.
b. Uncertain, unstable, changeable, fleeting. (Cf. slidder a. 1 c.)
a1400Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxiii. 980 Þe eȝen of vr inward þouht Lyft vp from slideri þinge. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 102 Full slyddrie is the sait that thay on sit. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 292 Quhair may be seine how vnconstant and slidrie was the end of that battell. c1610Sir W. Mure Sonn. x. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 56 Quhose othe & promeis ar a slidrie ground To build wpon, to make a man assuird. 1640Canterburians Self-Convict. 32 A full peace in tearmes so generall, so ambiguous, so slidderie. 1786Burns Farewell Brethren St. James's Lodge i, Tho' I to foreign lands must hie, Pursuing Fortune's slidd'ry ba'. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xv, It will be present service..which, in these sliddery times, will be expected by a man like the Marquis.
2. Inclined or prone to slip. rare—1.
1382Wyclif Lam. iv. 18 Thei maden slidery oure steppis in the weie of oure stretes.
3. Of a smooth or slippery nature. Also fig., sly, deceitful.
a1225Ancr. R. 74 Þe tunge is sliddri, uor heo wadeð ine wete. 1382Wyclif Prov. xxvi. 28 The slideri mouth werchith fallingis. 1551Abp. Hamilton Catech. 76 Thai ar lyk to ane slederie eil. 1791J. Learmont Poems 45 Unless some slidd'ry means he us'd. 1816G. Muir Clydesdale Minstrelsy 8 (E.D.D.), Lawyers fam'd for slidd'ry gabs. 1868W. Shelley Flowers 181 Some gleg-gabbit slidderie lier. |