sluff

Plural: sluffs

Noun

• Alternative spelling of slough (skin shed by a snake or other reptile).
• Alternative spelling of slough (dead skin on a sore or ulcer).
• An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.

Verb

Verb Forms: sluffed, sluffing, sluffs

• To discard a card or cards in a game.
• Alternative spelling of slough (to shed or to slide off).
• ignore, shrug (off)
• Alternative spelling of slough (discard).
• to avoid working
• To play truant from (school).

Examples

• He had to sluff his ’Q’ on Words With Friends, knowing no ’U’ was available.
• That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.
• This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.

Anagrams of sluff