See sloughy on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1724, Jonathan Swift, The Drapier's Letters, Letter 7, published 1903:",
"text": "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, and sloughy underneath; which last turns all into bog, by this mismanagement.",
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