different between sluff vs pluff

English

Alternative forms

• slough

Etymology

From Middle English slough (“skin, husk, rind; cocoon; scales; cyst”), akin to Middle High German slûch (“slough”) (whence German Schlauch (“tube, hose”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sl?f, IPA^(key): /sl?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Noun

sluff (plural sluffs)

1. Alternative spelling of slough (skin shed by a snake or other reptile).

   That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.

2. Alternative spelling of slough (dead skin on a sore or ulcer).

   This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.

3. An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.

Translations

Verb

sluff (third-person singular simple present sluffs, present participle sluffing, simple past and past participle sluffed)

1. Alternative spelling of slough (to shed or to slide off).
2. ignore, shrug (off)
3. Alternative spelling of slough (discard).
4. to avoid working

   He's sluffing off somewhere.

5. (transitive) To play truant from (school).
   • Sunshine for the Latter-Day Saint Mother's Soul

     Both calls told her the same thing — that her son had been sluffing school. She felt betrayed. She had trusted this child.

Translations

Derived terms

• sluffy

Anagrams

• Luffs, luffs

English

Noun

pluff (plural pluffs)

1. (Scotland) A puff of smoke or dust.
2. (Scotland) A hairdresser's powder puff.
3. (Scotland) The act of using a powder puff.

Verb

pluff (third-person singular simple present pluffs, present participle pluffing, simple past and past participle pluffed)

1. To dust or to puff with smoke.
2. (Scotland) To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs.