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sluffing

vb. (present participle of sluff English)

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Sluffing

Sluffing has multiple meanings:

  • Loose snow avalanche, non cohesive snow falling down a slope.
  • Truancy, absence from schooling.

Usage examples of "sluffing".

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.