pughole

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A marshy place where water pools or seeps.
    — […] Is there much stagnant water lying about? - There is no more than what has accumulated in the natural gullies and pugholes, from flood water, which the drains have not taken off. […] some of these pugholes [...] are twenty, thirty, or forty feet [deep].

词形变化

pugholes plural

词源

Perhaps related to dialectal English or Scots pouk (“hole in the ground, usually waterlogged or marshy”), see pucksy for more.
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