sloughy

From slough (“marshy area”) +‎ -y.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈslaʊ.i/, /ˈslu.i/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈslaʊ.i/

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sloughy (comparative more sloughy, superlative most sloughy)

1. Having the characteristics of a wetland; marshy.

   Synonyms: boggy, miry, mucky, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy

   • 1724 March–October, M. B. [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], [Drapier’s Letters], Dublin: […] John Harding […]:

     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.

   • 1915 October, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter I, in The Song of the Lark, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, part II (The Song of the Lark), page 162:

     The Swedish Reform Church was in a sloughy, weedy district, near a group of factories.

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

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈslʌf.i/

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sloughy (comparative more sloughy, superlative most sloughy)

1. Resembling dead skin.

   Synonyms: scarious, scruffy, scurfy, sluffy; see also Thesaurus:scabby