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sloughy¹

  • /ˈslaʊ.i/ US
  • /ˈslu.i/ US
  • /ˈslaʊ.i/ UK

Where it comes from

From slough (“marshy area”) + -y.

adjective more sloughy · most sloughy

  1. Having the characteristics of a wetland; marshy. Neither should that odious custom be allowed, of cutting scraws, (as they call them) which is flaying off the green surface of the ground, to cover their cabins; or make up their ditches; sometimes in shallow soils, where all is gravel within a few inches; and sometimes in low ground, with a thin gr

    Similar: boggy, miry, mucky, swampy, boggish, fennish, fenny, marish, marshy, moorish, moory, morassy

sloughy²

  • /ˈslʌf.i/ US, UK

Where it comes from

From slough (“shed skin; dead skin”) + -y.

adjective more sloughy · most sloughy

  1. Resembling dead skin.

    Similar: scarious, scruffy, scurfy, sluffy, reef, roynish, scabby, scabrate, scabrid, scabrous, scald, scalled

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@misc{sloughy_2026,
  title = {sloughy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sloughy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}