- although it may not be unusual to associate the word 'flush' with the word 'bog', this particular flush is used of boggy or swampy ground, or a pool of water in a field. The derivative floshen is used to describe a large, shallow puddle, as in the following passage from the Scots Magazine (1823):
I could see peat-mosses on all hands, filled with peat-stacks, and, occasionally, pretty large floshens, or collections of moss-water.