sesspool

English

Etymology

From English dialect suss (“hogwash”), soss (“a dirty mess, a puddle”) + pool (“a puddle”). Compare Goidelic ses (“a coarse mess”), English cess (“the boggy foreshore of a tidal river”).

Noun

sesspool (plural sesspools)

  1. Archaic form of cesspool.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sesspool in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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