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Definition of Sluffed
1. sluff [v] - See also: sluff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluffed
Literary usage of Sluffed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"... be " sluffed." " Doan't sluff that barn, ... sluffed." " Sluffing at it agean !
—gi'e her a smack, its awal her nasty bit o' temper. ..."
2. Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by John Avery Lomax (1919)
"... the stem and threw their feet, And speared four-bits on which to eat; But
deprived themselves of daily bread And sluffed their coin for " dago red. ..."
3. Notes on Formation and Organization of Business Corporations Under the Laws by James Stark Bennett, Trowbridge Hall, Georg Kaiser (1920)
"In panic the Indians sluffed off their conversion robes, lapsing back into old
idolatrous practices. They prostrated themselves, turning to the four points ..."
4. Southern France Including Corsica: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1907)
"sluffed dates (Mattes farcies') are a .speciality of Montpellier. Baths. К.
Durand, Rue de la Merci 2 (PI. ..."
5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray (1899)
"... and those old opera people, whose withered old carcases are sluffed with them
f The 0'R. There was ..."
6. Homes and haunts of the most eminent British poets by William Howitt (1847)
"... the witches keep their sabbath here, and that once a year the devil treats
them with infernal venison, a roasted tiger sluffed with tenpenny nails. ..."
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