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slough
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English slogh, slugh, slouh. Akin to Middle Low German slô (“sheath, skin on a hoof”). Perhaps also related with Old Saxon sl?k (“snakeskin”), Middle High German sl?ch, whence German Schlauch (“waterskin, hose”).
Alternative forms
- sluff
Pronunciation
- enPR: sl?f, IPA(key): /sl?f/
- Rhymes: -?f
Noun
slough (countable and uncountable, plural sloughs)
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
Translations
Verb
slough (third-person singular simple present sloughs, present participle sloughing, simple past and past participle sloughed)
- (transitive) To shed (skin).
- This skin is being sloughed.
- Snakes slough their skin periodically.
- (intransitive) To slide off (like a layer of skin).
- A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
- 2013, Casey Watson, Mummy’s Little Helper: The heartrending true story of a young girl:
- The mud sloughed off her palms easily […]
- (transitive, card games) To discard.
- East sloughed a heart.
- (intransitive, slang, Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
- Synonym: ditch
Derived terms
- slough off
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old English sl?h, probably from Proto-Germanic *sl?haz.
Pronunciation
- (General Australian, UK):
- enPR: slou, IPA(key): /sla?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- (US): enPR: slou, slo?o, IPA(key): /sla?/, /slu?/
- Rhymes: -a?, -u?
Noun
slough (plural sloughs)
- (Britain) A muddy or marshy area.
- 1883 "That comed - as you call it - of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor, "and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough. — Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- (Eastern United States) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
- (Western United States) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- The Sacramento River Delta contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
- A state of depression.
- John is in a slough.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
- Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems.
Derived terms
- slough of despond
- sloughy
- slough hay
- slough shark
Translations
Anagrams
- Loughs, ghouls, loughs
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quagmire
English
Etymology
Recorded since 1579, from quag +? mire. The sense “perilous, mixed up and troubled situation” has been recorded since 1775.
Alternatively, the word may apparently be a variation of the earlier quakemire, from quake + mire.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kw??.ma??(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?kwæ?.ma???/
- Hyphenation: quag?mire
Noun
quagmire (plural quagmires)
- A swampy, soggy area of ground.
- Synonyms: marsh, marshland, mire, quag
- (figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament.
Translations
Verb
quagmire (third-person singular simple present quagmires, present participle quagmiring, simple past and past participle quagmired)
- (transitive) To embroil (a person, etc.) in complexity or difficulty.
References
- quagmire at OneLook Dictionary Search.
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