sluff
/slʌf/
verb
- To shed or cast off, such as skin, a layer, or a habit.
- The tree sluffs its bark in large pieces during the summer.
- The snake will sluff its skin several times a year.
- She decided to sluff her old habits and start exercising daily.
- To avoid work or responsibility; to shirk or slack off.
- Don't sluff your duties if you want to keep your job.
- Some students sluff off their homework and then struggle on tests.
- He tried to sluff his chores by pretending to be sick.
noun
- The skin or outer layer that has been shed or cast off.
- She found a sluff of bark under the old oak tree.
- The sluff of the snake lay dried out on the rock.
- The lizard's sluff was still intact after it molted.