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
At last, out of the dreary waste, at the end of the interminable ill-paved sloughy road, the long line of the grey tumble-down walls rises gloomily.
From Rome in 1860 by Edward Dicey
Treatment.—The only satisfactory treatment is thorough removal under an anæsthetic of all the sloughy tissue, with the surrounding zone in which the organisms are active.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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
He had fallen into this love as one falls into a sloughy hole.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Guy de Maupassant
