Crossword clues for sluff
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"avoid work," 1951 slang variant of slough (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (alternative spelling of slough nodot=1 English) (gloss: skin shed by a snake or other reptile). 2 (alternative spelling of slough nodot=1 English) (gloss: dead skin on a sore or ulcer). 3 An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris. vb. (alternative spelling of slough nodot=1 English) (gloss: to shed or to slide off).
Usage examples of "sluff".
By now, I was really surrounding myself with guys who were good at all the things I tended to just sluff off, like organizing the company to handle the growth explosion we had started.
And he can sluff it easy enoughyou walk an hour without getting a fresh warning, you lose one of the old ones.
Lila as the dream whirled about him, giving way to the sounds of the River, the soft, eternal sluff of water.
It is so sluffed over and hushed up, there is so little clear thinking--oh, political economy, of course, but so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means.
Yet there was no noise of falling, not even the sluffing sound which might have been expected, seemingly, if the red stuff were actually so much dust-which it did not seem to be.
He shouldn't be sluffing off his work with Hosea, and he ought to see how Hosea was coming with that task he'd set him.
Then flame ran down the wall, following the spilled gasoline, with a sluffing sound.