glidy

English

Etymology

From glide +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlaɪdi/
• Rhymes: -aɪdi

Adjective

glidy (comparative more glidy, superlative most glidy)

1. That glides.
   • 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:

     Naturally, a man of Disko's reputation was closely watched—"scrowged upon," Dan called it—by his neighbours, but he had a very pretty knack of giving them the slip through the curdling, glidy fog-banks.