Posted on 02/01/2010 5:43:51 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 2/1/10
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
slough; noun/verb
noun[1]1 1. an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region. 2. a hole full of mire, as in a road. 3. Also, slew, slue. Northern U.S. and Canadian. a marshy or reedy pool, pond, inlet, backwater, or the like. 4. a condition of degradation, despair, or helplessness.
–noun[2] 1. the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically. 2. Pathology. a mass or layer of dead tissue separated from the surrounding or underlying tissue. 3. anything that is shed or cast off. 4. Cards. a discard.
–verb (used without object) 5. to be or become shed or cast off, as the slough of a snake. 6. to cast off a slough. 7. Pathology. to separate from the sound flesh, as a slough. 8. Cards. to discard a card or cards.
–verb (used with object) 9. to dispose or get rid of; cast (often fol. by off): to slough off a bad habit. 10. to shed as or like a slough. 11. Cards. to discard (cards
Etymology: 1250–1300; ME slughe, slouh skin of a snake; c. G Schlauch skin, bag
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
A clever ploy to deflect criticism.
We are SOOOO looking forward to sloughing off the dirtbags in November..and the even BIGGER one in 2012!
good point.
like a giant loofah sloughing off dead skin cells! yes indeedy! A+++
LMAO!
Washington, D.C. is a political slough [n,1] where our “representatives” slough [v] off the legitimate concerns of the people in favor of their own agendas...
A++ ++ it’s a pit of despond.
Stay out the Bushes.
Thank you Reverend.
It pains me to quote Jessee Jagmo but, oh well.
A+++ i agree, i think we don’t need to go there. the same visceral reaction that sarah palin prompts, will be prompted by anyone named Bush, on both right AND left.
Gloomy and cold again today-
With a budget that promises doom
And completely ignores the facts
Obama seems to be going mad
By the clueless way he acts
He sloughs off all the warnings
From those in his party’s middle
He begins to remind me of Nero-
Someone please hand him a fiddle
Give him a purple-bordered toga
A laurel wreath and a glass of wine-
Oh, wait-better make that koolaide
So that everything looks just fine
See? I told you the landings were faked. Now you know who did it and how.
This is scary. Sweden is turning into a slough pile:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2441482/posts
i can see him in the toga now! A+++
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