Slough vs Sloth - What's the difference?
slough | sloth |
The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
To shed (skin).
To slide off (like a layer of skin).
* 2013 , Casey Watson, Mummy’s Little Helper: The heartrending true story of a young girl :
(card games) To discard.
(British) A muddy or marshy area.
* 1883' "That comed - as you call it - of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor, "and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous '''slough . — ''
(Eastern United States) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
(Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
A state of depression.
(Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all are formed by glacial potholes.
(uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
* Milton
* Franklin
(countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
(rare) A collective term for a group of bears.
As nouns the difference between slough and sloth
is that slough is the skin shed by a snake or other reptile while sloth is laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.As verbs the difference between slough and sloth
is that slough is to shed (skin) while sloth is to be idle.As a proper noun Slough
is a town in east Berkshire, and formerly in Buckinghamshire, close to Heathrow Airport.slough
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), akin to Middle High German ).Alternative forms
* sluffNoun
(en noun)- That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
- This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
Verb
(en verb)- This skin is being sloughed .
- A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
- The mud sloughed off her palms easily
- East sloughed a heart.
Derived terms
* slough offEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough .
- The contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
- John is in a slough .
- Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems.
Derived terms
* sloughy * Slough of DespondAnagrams
* English heteronymssloth
English
(wikipedia sloth)Alternative forms
* sloath, slowth (obsolete)Noun
- [They] change their course to pleasure, ease, and sloth .
- Sloth , like rust, consumes faster than labour wears.
