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Sloughy

//ˈslaʊ.i// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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 greensward, and sloughy underneath; which last turns all into bog, by this mismanagement."

  2. 2
    Resembling dead skin.
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of soil) soft and watery wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From slough (“marshy area”) + -y.

Etymology 2

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

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