sluffing

Verb

sluff (third-person singular simple present sluffs, present participle sluffing, simple past and past participle sluffed)

1. ignore, shrug (off)
   • Blaser, for whom the rumored death of his program has been an annual affair, recalled the other day how nervous he was the first time he heard swimming might be cut his freshman year and how it became easier to sluff off the rumors.1996 January 29, Kevin Acee, “Several coaches are worried over what will happen to their sports”, in The Free Library, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2013
2. to avoid working
   • He's sluffing off somewhere.
3. (transitive, Utah, Idaho) To play truant from (school).
   • Sunshine for the Latter-Day Saint Mother's Soul
     Both calls told her the same thing — that her son had been sluffing school. She felt betrayed. She had trusted this child.

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