Meaning of sloughy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having the characteristics of a wetland; marshy.
2. Resembling dead skin.

Examples

“Neither should that odious custom be allowed, of cutting scraws, (as they call them) which is flaying off the green surface of the ground, to cover their cabins; or make up their ditches; sometimes in shallow soils, where all is gravel within a few inches; and sometimes in low ground, with a thin greensward, and sloughy underneath; which last turns all into bog, by this mismanagement.”

“The Swedish Reform Church was in a sloughy, weedy district, near a group of factories.”

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