sesspool
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
sesspool (plural sesspools)
References[edit]
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- “sesspool”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.