sloughy

English

Etymology

From slough +‎ -y.

Adjective

sloughy (comparative more sloughy, superlative most sloughy)

1. Marshy; having the characteristics of a wetland.

   Synonyms: boggy, miry, mucky, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy

   • 1724, Jonathan Swift, The Drapier's Letters, Letter 7, published 1903:

     Neither should that odious custom be allowed, of cutting scraws, (as they call them) which is flaying off the green surface of the ground, to cover their cabins; or make up their ditches; sometimes in shallow soils, where all is gravel within a few inches; and sometimes in low ground, with a thin greensward, and sloughy underneath; which last turns all into bog, by this mismanagement.

   • 1918, Willa Cather, chapter 1, in The Song of the Lark, part 1:

     The Swedish Reform Church was in a sloughy, weedy district, near a group of factories.

2. Resembling dead skin.

   Synonyms: scarious, scruffy, scurfy, sluffy; see also Thesaurus:scabby