sluffv.
/slʌf/, U.S. /sləf/ U.S.
transitive. = slough v.2 3.For other uses see Engl. Dial. Dict. at Slough n.1 and vb.1
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [verb (transitive)]
to let awaya1000
forcast?c1225
to lay downc1275
forthrow1340
flita1375
removea1382
to cast away1382
understrewc1384
castc1390
to lay awaya1400
to lay asidec1440
slingc1440
warpiss1444
to lay from, offc1480
way-put1496
depose1526
to lay apart1526
to put off1526
to set apart1530
to turn up1541
abandonate?1561
devest1566
dispatch1569
decarta1572
discard1578
to make away1580
to fling away1587
to cast off1597
doff1599
cashier1603
to set by1603
moult1604
excuss1607
retorta1616
divest1639
deposit1646
disentail1667
dismiss1675
slough1845
shed1856
jettison1869
shake1872
offload1900
junk1911
dump1919
sluff1934
bin1940
to put down1944
shitcan1973
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > give up a habit or practice [verb (transitive)]
leaveeOE
forsakec1175
waive1340
twinc1386
refuse1389
to set aside1426
relinquish1454
abuse1471
renouncec1480
disaccustom1483
to break from1530
to lay aside1530
disprofess1590
dropa1616
to set bya1674
decline1679
unpractise?1680
slough1845
shake1872
sluff1934
kick1936
1934 Amer. Ballads & Folk Songs i. 24 And sluffed their coin for ‘dago red’.
1959 T. Reese & A. Dormer Bridge Player's Dict. 206 Sluff, to discard; to throw a card, other than a trump, of a suit different from the one led.
1964 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Dec. 20 Its water-repellent finish sluffs off snow.
1966 J. Dos Passos Best Times (1968) ii. 56 I had sluffed off Harvard indifference, but Harvard snobbery still hung on.
1972 New York 8 May 43/3 His [sc. a dog's] shedding mechanism, which now goes about building up and sluffing off the coat.
1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 50/4 When I consulted a urologist he complained that he was sick of other doctors sluffing the problem off on him all the time.
1976 National Skat & Sheepshead Q. Mar. 5 The picker sluffed off the club king.
1978 Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. 19 c/3 East is now squeezed in the red suits—he must either give up a trick to the jack of hearts or sluff two diamonds, which sets up declarer's third diamond.
1980 Amer. Speech 55 210 Black jazzmen returned to the linguistic roots of their art which had been sidetracked and sluffed off in the bebop/bop movement of the 1940s.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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