Sluff

Quick meaning: Sluff is a noun meaning An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

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.

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

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

Word Forms

• sluffs
• sluffing
• sluffed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ruff, slide, snowslip, slumpage, landslip, slud.

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