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What is "sloughy"

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sloughy

Sloughy \Slough"y\, a. Full of sloughs, miry.

Sloughy

Sloughy \Slough"y\, a. Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.

Wiktionary
sloughy

a. marshy; having the characteristics of a wetland.

WordNet
sloughy

adj. (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"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, swampy]

Usage examples of "sloughy".

He regains consciousness in the hole, and struggles even then, sinking in the sloughy darkness, trying to dig his way out, until finally he sinks and the attacker fills in the bog hole with spoil.

His hand comes up and points in her direction, the burned, sloughy flesh dangling off his finger like strings of half-dried glue.