Sloughy

Slough  (slou)

A borough of southeast England, a residential and industrial suburb of London. Population: 126,000.

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slough ¹  (sl, slou) also slew (sl)

n.

1. A depression or hollow, usually filled with deep mud or mire.

2. also slue A stagnant swamp, marsh, bog, or pond, especially as part of a bayou, inlet, or backwater.

3. A state of deep despair or moral degradation.

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[Middle English, from Old English slh.]

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sloughy adj.

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slough ²  (slf)

n.

1. The dead outer skin shed by a reptile or amphibian.

2. Medicine A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, sore, or inflammation.

3. An outer layer or covering that is shed.

v. sloughed, slough·ing, sloughs

v.intr.

1. To be cast off or shed; come off: The snake's skin sloughs off.

2. To shed a slough.

3. Medicine To separate from surrounding living tissue. Used of dead tissue.

v.tr.

To discard as undesirable or unfavorable; get rid of: slough off former associates.

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[Middle English slughe.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

sloughy - (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, soggy, swampy, waterlogged, squashy, sloppy wet - covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"