dial. [var. of FLOSH; cf. SLUSH, SLUDGE, and see FLASH sb.1] A small pool, a puddle.
1696. A. de la Pryme, Diary (Surtees), 81–2. He himself saw and beheld, in all the gutters and rivelets of water in the streets and in the flodges, great quantities of little young jacks, or pickerels, about the length of a man’s fingure, and that when the waters were gone they all dy’d.
1870. E. Peacock, Ralf Skirl., I. 194–5. Here and there miniature lakes which Lincolnshire men call flodges, stretched across the whole path.
