sesspool
English
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”).[1]
Compare Goidelic ses (“a coarse mess”), English cess (“the boggy foreshore of a tidal river”).
Noun
sesspool (plural sesspools)
- Archaic form of cesspool.
References
- ^ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Sesspool”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
- “sesspool”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.