Definitions
switch channels, on television
Word origin
Probably from earlier suff, suffe (“the inrush of the sea towards the shore”), possibly from Middle English suffe. Compare sough, surf (“a gutter, drain, sewer, trench”) and sough (“a soothing, gentle, murmuring sound of wind or water”). Alternatively, possibly of Indo-Aryan origin, as the word was formerly a reference to the coast of India, though this is doubtful as no positive etymon can be identified.
Used in a sentence
“[…] perhaps it was the look of the island, with its gray, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach […]”
“It was alone, nervously alighting and flying short distances along the surf.”
“In most instances the inshore holes or pockets along the surf do not produce as well as the cuts or sloughs between sand bars.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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