English Explanatory Dictionary

sesspool

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Archaic form of cesspool.

Word forms

sesspool sesspools

Etymology

From English dialect suss (“hogwash”), soss (“a dirty mess, a puddle”) + pool (“a puddle”). According to the OED, the first element is from earlier suspiral (“water pipe, setting tank”). Compare Goidelic ses (“a coarse mess”), English cess (“the boggy foreshore of a tidal river”).

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