flosh 2 (flosh)

[ Al in a semblé sweyed to-geder, Bitwene a flosche in that fryth, & a foo cragge. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1430. 2. A swamp; a body of standing water grown over with weeds, reeds, etc. Jamicson . [Scotch.] Ducks a paddock-hunting scour the bog, And powheads spartle in the oosy flosh . Davidson, Seasons, p. 12.