Ulcer vs Sluff - What's the difference?
ulcer | sluff |
(pathology) An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection.
(pathology) peptic ulcer
(figurative) Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.
(skin shed by a snake or other reptile).
(dead skin on a sore or ulcer).
An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.
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* {{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.}}
(to shed or to slide off).
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ignore, shrug (off)
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(discard).
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 16, author=Phillip Alder, title=At a Florida Game, an Unusual Double Squeeze, work=New York Times
, passage=If either played another club, declarer would ruff on the board and sluff his diamond queen.}}
to avoid working
As a noun ulcer
is (pathology) an open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection.As an acronym sluff is
(slang|us|air force) short little ugly fat fellow (or fucker); us airforce nickname for the a-7 bomber.ulcer
English
(wikipedia ulcer)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* ulcerate * ulceration * ulcerative * ulcerous * ulcerously * ulcerousnessAnagrams
* * ----sluff
English
Alternative forms
* sloughNoun
(en noun)- That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.
- This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.
Verb
(en verb)citation
- He's sluffing off somewhere.