What does sloughy mean?
Definitions for sloughy
sloughy
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Princeton's WordNet
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
sloughyadjective
Marshy; having the characteristics of a wetland.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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.
ChatGPT
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
Sloughyadjective
full of sloughs, miry
Sloughyadjective
resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sloughy in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sloughy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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