Fromslough +‎-y.

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sloughy (comparativemoresloughy,superlativemostsloughy)

1. Marshy; having the characteristics of awetland.

   Synonyms:boggy,miry,mucky,swampy;see alsoThesaurus:marshy

   • 1724,Jonathan Swift,The Drapier's Letters, Letter 7, published1903:

     Neither should that odious custom be allowed, of cutting scraws, (as they call them) which is flaying off the green surface of the ground, to cover their cabins; or make up their ditches; sometimes in shallow soils, where all is gravel within a few inches; and sometimes in low ground, with a thin greensward, andsloughy underneath; which last turns all into bog, by this mismanagement.

   • 1918,Willa Cather, chapter 1, inThe Song of the Lark, part 1:

     The Swedish Reform Church was in asloughy, weedy district, near a group of factories.

2. Resemblingdeadskin.

   Synonyms:scarious,scruffy,scurfy,sluffy;see alsoThesaurus:scabby

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