In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
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
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
14 November 2024
(noun) the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs; “he gave the suspect a quick frisk”
In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.