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.

[1] 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.

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