SLOUGHY

boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged

(adjective) (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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

sloughy (comparative more sloughy, superlative most sloughy)

Marshy; having the characteristics of a wetland.

Synonyms: boggy, miry, mucky, swampy, Thesaurus:marshy

Resembling dead skin.

Synonyms: scarious, scruffy, scurfy, sluffy, Thesaurus:scabby

Source: Wiktionary


Slough"y, a.

Definition: Full of sloughs, miry.

Slough"y, a.

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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