noun
- Plural of boghole; holes or depressions in boggy or marshy ground, often filled with water or soft mud.
Usage: chiefly British and Irish; often used in geographical or environmental contexts
Examples
- The hikers carefully avoided the bogholes scattered across the moorland.
- After heavy rain, the bogholes filled with water and became impassable.
- The landscape was dotted with bogholes that made walking treacherous.
- Local children knew which bogholes were safe to cross and which were dangerously deep.
- The peat extraction had left numerous bogholes across the wetland.