Sluff vs Pluff - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between sluff and pluff

is that sluff is an alternative spelling of lang=en skin shed by a snake or other reptile while pluff is a puff of smoke or dust.

As verbs the difference between sluff and pluff

is that sluff is an alternative spelling of lang=en to shed or to slide off while pluff is to dust or to puff with smoke.

As an acronym SLUFF

is short Little Ugly Fat Fellow (or Fucker); US Airforce nickname for the A-7 bomber.

sluff

English

Alternative forms

* slough

Noun

(en noun)

(skin shed by a snake or other reptile).

That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.

(dead skin on a sore or ulcer).

This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.

An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.

* {{quote-web, date=2002-03-02, author=Sid Perkins, title=Avalanche! Scientists are digging out the secrets of lethal flows of snow., site=The Free Library, url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Avalanche!+Scientists+are+digging+out+the+secrets+of+lethal+flows+of+...-a084054171,

, passage=At least for small sluffs like the ones Brown and his colleagues have triggered, the avalanche slides like a block of material instead of flowing like a fluid.}}

Verb

(en verb)

(to shed or to slide off).

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ignore, shrug (off)

(discard).

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 16, author=Phillip Alder, title=At a Florida Game, an Unusual Double Squeeze, work=New York Times citation

, passage=If either played another club, declarer would ruff on the board and sluff his diamond queen.}}

to avoid working

He's sluffing off somewhere.

Derived terms

* sluffy

Anagrams

pluff

English

Noun

(en noun)

(Scotland) A puff of smoke or dust.

(Scotland) A hairdresser's powder puff.

(Scotland) The act of using a powder puff.

Verb

(en verb)

To dust or to puff with smoke.

(Scotland) To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs.