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Slough

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1845, OED Evaluation: N/A

To cast off, drop, discard, give up, get rid of (something).

ExampleMeaning
Went down to the creek, and got some water in and come up and slough (inc) a bunch of this stuff out of this gallon pan and put some sugar in it and drank it.
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ExampleMeaning
They asked more questions. They ah, they paid more attention to what they're doing and took more care in what they were doing. Nowadays, just slough it off and let somebody else fix it. And ah, it's the recycled generation, you don't like it, throw it out, get something else. Don't fix it.
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