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