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sloughy

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterloggedadjective

    (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"

Wiktionary

  1. sloughyadjective

    Marshy; having the characteristics of a wetland.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sloughyadjective

    Miry; boggy; muddy.

    Etymology: from slough.

    That custom should not be allowed of cutting scraws in low grounds sloughy underneath, which turn into bog. Jonathan Swift.

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  1. sloughy

    Sloughy refers to something that is characterized by, covered in, or resembling a slough, which can mean a muddy, marshy, or boggy area, or can refer to an area of soft, muddy ground that you sink under if you walk on it. In medical terminology, it can also refer to a condition of a wound or ulcer where dead, soft, moist, decaying tissue is present.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sloughyadjective

    full of sloughs, miry

  2. Sloughyadjective

    resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sloughy in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sloughy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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