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SLOUGHY

\slˈa͡ʊi], \slˈa‍ʊi], \s_l_ˈaʊ_i]\

Definitions of SLOUGHY

2006 - WordNet 3.0
2011 - English Dictionary Database
2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language

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(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"

2006 - WordNet 3.0
By Princeton University

(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"

2011 - English Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

Swampy.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

Swampy.

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

Like or containing slough.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

Of the nature of slough, or cast-off matter.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

Boggy; miry.
Resembling the dead matter which separates from flesh; to slough off, to separate from the living parts, as the dead part in mortification.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.

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