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▪ I. sloughy, a.1|ˈslaʊɪ|
[f. slough n.1 + -y1.]
Of the nature of, resembling, slough or soft mud; abounding in or full of slough; miry, muddy.
1724Swift Drapier's Lett. vii. Wks. 1755 V. ii. 152 Low ground, with a thin green sward, and sloughy underneath. 1776G. Semple Building in Water 71 That they may not lean either to the one Side or the other in that sloughy Ground. 1813J. C. Hobhouse Journey (ed. 2) 102 The path very bad and sloughy. 1872S. Mostyn Perplexity I. ii. 45 He will..kneel in sloughy banks. 1890Stanley Darkest Africa II. xxii. 57 Belts of sloughy mud, disparted by small streams.
▪ II. sloughy, a.2|ˈslʌfɪ|
Also 5 slughy.
[f. slough n.2 + -y1.]
1. Consisting or formed of slough or cast skin. rare.
1483Cath. Angl. 345/2 Slughy, squamosus. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. x. 71 The sloughy Spoils from his sleek Back depos'd.
2. Path. Of the nature of, resembling, a slough; marked or characterized by the presence of a slough or sloughs.
c1720Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. iv. (1738) 12 A disease proceeding..from some viscid sloughy matter. 1775Phil. Trans. LXVI. 436 The wound..made but an indifferent appearance; the edges of it were very sloughy. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 232 The whole surface..was found in a sloughy and putrid state. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 329 During the following three days, the stump assumed a sloughy condition.
Comb.1839–47Todd's Cycl. Anat. III. 55/1 A large sloughy-looking opening. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 339 A ragged excavated sore, having a white sloughy-looking base. |