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sluff

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5 lettersPronunciation /slʌf/Sorted fflsuStarts with SEnds with F0 clues
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Definitions

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

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.
  • This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.
  • 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.

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