Definitions
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- Slippery.
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- adjective
Slippery .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And albeit we have written this poor scroll with our own hand, and are well assured of the fidelity of our messenger, as him that is many ways bounden to us, yet so it is, that sliddery ways crave wary walking, and that we may not peril upon paper matters which we would gladly impart to you by word of mouth.
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“Ay, but,” rejoined the agent of the Marquis, “it is in vain to look back on past service and auld respect, my lord; it will be present service and immediate proofs of regard which, in these sliddery times, will be expected by a man like the Marquis.”
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One does not always have to throb madly up Sixteenth, with head retorted over one's shoulder to see if a car may still be coming, while the legs make what speed they may on sliddery paving.
Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923
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I thought it must be a hard life for the man, wading day after day in the ice-cold water, and groping among the coggly, sliddery stones for the shellfish, and cracking open perhaps a thousand before he could find one pearl.
Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892
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And the sliddery [5] troot, wi 'ae soop o' its tail,
Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood George MacDonald 1864
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"It's ower saft an 'sliddery like i' yer mou ', my leddy."
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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"Ay, but," rejoined the agent of the Marquis, "it is in vain to look back on past service and auld respect, my lord; it will be present service and immediate proofs of regard which, in these sliddery times, will be expected by a man like the Marquis."
The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801
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And albeit we have written this poor scroll with our own hand, and are well assured of the fidelity of our messenger, as him that is many ways bounden to us, yet so it is, that sliddery ways crave wary walking, and that we may not peril upon paper matters which we would gladly impart to you by word of mouth.
The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801
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"Is it me that you look to be climbing down them sliddery rocks and swimming intil the cold sea among your caves and hiding holes?
The Northern Iron George A. Birmingham 1907
avivamagnolia commented on the word sliddery
~ Slippery; from slide
~ unstable, changeable in thought or purpose, not to be depended upon.
~ "There's a sliddery stane afore the ha' door. (It is sometimes dangerous to visit great houses.)
Scots Proverbs, by Allan RamsayJanuary 18, 2009