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)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)