Sluff

/slʌf/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Alternative spelling of slough (skin shed by a snake or other reptile).
2. Alternative spelling of slough (dead skin on a sore or ulcer).
3. An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.
4. Alternative spelling of slough (to shed or to slide off).
5. ignore, shrug (off)
6. Alternative spelling of slough (discard).
7. to avoid working
8. (transitive, Utah, Idaho) To play truant from (school).

Example Sentences

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

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

The Scouts learned from expert Keith Burke that snow avalanches come in different forms. A powder or "sluff" avalanche starts at a single point and fans out as surface snow slides downhill. These avalanches are not as violent as slab avalanches. Slab avalanches are very dangerous. They occur when a whole hillside of snow breaks loose in a giant slab, which then breaks into snow blocks that tumble downhill faster and faster.

At least for small sluffs like the ones Brown and his colleagues have triggered, the avalanche slides like a block of material instead of flowing like a fluid.

While I found wonderfully soft and untracked snow near the top, I ended up surprised by the firmer stuff in the chutes near the bottom, where small slides had sluffed away the soft, top layer.

After temperatures warm up a little, however, the snow will "sluff", or slide, down the front of the windshield, often in small slabs.

Blaser, for whom the rumored death of his program has been an annual affair, recalled the other day how nervous he was the first time he heard swimming might be cut his freshman year and how it became easier to sluff off the rumors.

If either played another club, declarer would ruff on the board and sluff his diamond queen.

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• sluffs
• slough
• sluffing
• sluffed

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