slough
noun
the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
sloughy
-
a word derived from
slough.
Example Sentences
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Secaucus, at the heart of a vast trash-filled marsh known, euphemistically, as the Meadows, is bounded by the ever dirty Hackensack River and two sloughy creeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Swedish Reform Church was in a sloughy, weedy district, near a group of factories.
From The Song of the Lark by Willa Sibert Cather
Usually, however, the wound is inflamed and suppurating, with ragged and sloughy edges.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
When they reached him he led them to a wide meadow-like stretch of sloughy ground, and showed them the fresh hoof-prints of many ponies.
From White Otter by Elmer Russell Gregor
In those days of filthy streets, and founderous sloughy roads, the great went ever on horseback, if it were but to a house two doors distant.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman
