moss-hag

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English

Noun

moss-hag (plural moss-hags)

  1. (Scotland) A pit or slough in a bog.
    • 1895, William Fraser, The Whaups of Durley, page 119:
      [] now a splash would be heard, followed by a roar, as some luckless wight fell into a moss hagg []