sloughy (1)
1Sloughy — Slough y, a. Full of sloughs, miry. [1913 Webster] …
2Sloughy — Slough y, a. Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh. [1913 Webster] …
3sloughy — adjective Marshy; having the characteristics of a wetland. 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; …
4sloughy — Ⅰ. slough [1] ► NOUN 1) a swamp. 2) a situation characterized by lack of progress or activity. DERIVATIVES sloughy adjective. ORIGIN Old English. Ⅱ. slough …
5sloughy — adjective (of soil) soft and watery the ground was boggy under foot a marshy coastline miry roads wet mucky lowland muddy barnyard quaggy terrain the sloughy edge of the pond swa …
6sloughy — adjective see slough I …
7sloughy — See slough1. * * * …
8sloughy — a. 1. Miry, boggy, queachy, marshy. 2. Foul, mortified, suppurated …
9boggy — adjective (of soil) soft and watery the ground was boggy under foot a marshy coastline miry roads wet mucky lowland muddy barnyard quaggy terrain the sloughy edge of the pond swa …
10marshy — adjective (of soil) soft and watery the ground was boggy under foot a marshy coastline miry roads wet mucky lowland muddy barnyard quaggy terrain the sloughy edge of the pond swa …
