sluff
/slʌf/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative spelling of slough (to shed or to slide off).
verb
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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- Transitive verb
- American usage
- Slang
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
sluffy