sloughy en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈslu.i/ (US)
- /ˈslaʊ.i/ (US)
- /ˈslaʊ.i/ (UK)
Etymology
From slough (“marshy area”) + -y.
Meanings
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Having the characteristics of a wetland; marshy.
The Swedish Reform Church was in a sloughy, weedy district, near a group of factories.
1915 October, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter I, in The Song of the Lark, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, part II (The Song of the Lark), page 162: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.
1724 March–October, M. B. [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], [Drapier’s Letters], Dublin: […] John Harding […]:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more sloughy | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most sloughy | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
spewy · paludal · miry · syrtic · miry · mucky · poachy · uliginous · queachy · palustrine · palustral · sloughy · morassy · boggish · swampy · fennish · wiery · marshy · swaly · slumpy · swampish · boggy · quaggy · paludine · paludinous · swampy · boggy · palustrous · fenny · moorish · moory · marish