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Sluff vs Slough - What's the difference?

sluff | slough | Alternative forms |

Slough is a alternative form of sluff.



As nouns the difference between sluff and slough

is that sluff is an alternative spelling of lang=en skin shed by a snake or other reptile while slough is the skin shed by a snake or other reptile.

As verbs the difference between sluff and slough

is that sluff is an alternative spelling of lang=en to shed or to slide off while slough is to shed (skin).

As an acronym SLUFF

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

As a proper noun Slough is

a town in east Berkshire, and formerly in Buckinghamshire, close to Heathrow Airport.

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

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    slough

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), akin to Middle High German ).

    Alternative forms

    * sluff

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
  • That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
  • Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
  • This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shed (skin).
  • This skin is being sloughed .
  • To slide off (like a layer of skin).
  • A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
  • * 2013 , Casey Watson, Mummy’s Little Helper: The heartrending true story of a young girl :
  • The mud sloughed off her palms easily
  • (card games) To discard.
  • East sloughed a heart.
    Derived terms
    * slough off

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough .
  • (Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
  • The contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
  • A state of depression.
  • John is in a slough .
  • (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all are formed by glacial potholes.
  • 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 Despond

    Anagrams

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