Sluff
Pronunciation
- enPR: slÅf, IPA: /slÊŒf/
- Rhymes: -ÊŒf
Alternative forms
Origin
From Middle English slough ("skin, husk, rind; cocoon; scales; cyst"), akin to Middle High German slûch ("slough") (whence German Schlauch ("tube, hose")).
Full definition of sluff
Noun
sluff
(plural sluffs)- Alternative spelling of slough (skin shed by a snake or other reptile).That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.
- Alternative spelling of slough (dead skin on a sore or ulcer).This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.
- An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.
- 2001
- 2002-03-02, 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.
Verb
- Alternative spelling of slough (to shed or to slide off).
- NSIDC (Content Source);Galal Hassan Galal Hussein (Topic Editor) "Avalanche". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth October 9, 2008; Last revised Date October 10, 2011; Retrieved April 21, 2012
- ignore, shrug (off)
- Alternative spelling of slough (discard).
- 2009, February 16, Phillip Alder, At a Florida Game, an Unusual Double Squeeze, If either played another club, declarer would ruff on the board and sluff his diamond queen.
- to avoid workingHe's sluffing off somewhere.