Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the nature of or resembling a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living tissue.
  • Full of sloughs; miry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of sloughs, miry.
  • adjective Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Marshy; having the characteristics of a wetland.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of soil) soft and watery

Etymologies

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From slough +‎ -y

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