Moss

n.

Heard in Donegal

A peat bog or stretch of waterlogged moorland used for cutting turf.

In use

Me back's broke from dragging turf up out of the moss la.

Posh English

My spine is thoroughly fractured from hauling blocks of peat up from the waterlogged moorland.

  • Cutting turfEuphemism describing the act of defecating, metaphorically speaking. Otherwise known as…
  • Hate from the bogPeat or turf for the fire. The phrase has no connection whatsoever to racism.
  • Like a bogSoaked in sweat to the point of resembling a peat bog.
  • Turf turf turfPeat, the fuel we burn on fires to keep warm and dry mother's undergarments.
  • Goin on the turf patrolSmoking cannabis in a bog with rural friends.
  • BogholeA man-made hole dug in a peat bog.