sloughy
/ˈslaʊ.i/US/ˈslaʊ.i/
sloughy adjective: having the characteristics of a wetland; marshy.
Adjective (1)
sloughy (comparative more sloughy, superlative most sloughy)
- 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...1724 March–October, M. B. [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], [Drapier’s Letters], Dublin: […] John Harding […]
- The Swedish Reform Church was in a sloughy, weedy district, near a group of factories.1915 October, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter I, in The Song of the Lark, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, part II (The Song of the Lark), page 162
Adjective (2)
UK/ˈslʌf.i/
sloughy (comparative more sloughy, superlative most sloughy)
Synonyms of sloughy
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Forms of sloughy
| comparative | more sloughy |
|---|---|
| superlative | most sloughy |
Origin of sloughy
From slough (“marshy area”) + -y.
From slough (“shed skin; dead skin”) + -y.
Words formed from sloughy
Questions about sloughy
- What does sloughy mean?
- Sloughy means having the characteristics of a wetland; marshy.
- What part of speech is sloughy?
- Sloughy is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce sloughy?
- Sloughy is pronounced /ˈslaʊ.i/ (US).
Words near sloughy in the dictionary
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