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cesspool

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈsɛsˌpuːl/

Definition of cesspool

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An underground pit where sewage is held.
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noun

  1. An underground pit where sewage is held.
  2. (broadly, derogatory, figuratively)A filthy place.
    “Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”

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Etymology

From earlier sesspool. Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Italian cesso (“privy, a toilet”) + English pool. Alternatively, an alteration of English dialectal suspool, from suss, soss (“a puddle; mire”) + pool.…

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From earlier sesspool. Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Italian cesso (“privy, a toilet”) + English pool. Alternatively, an alteration of English dialectal suspool, from suss, soss (“a puddle; mire”) + pool. Another possible derivation is from a folk etymology (influence from pool) from earlier cesperalle, alteration of Middle English suspiral, from Middle French souspirail (“an air hole”), from soupirer, souspirer (“to sigh, breathe”), from Latin suspirare.

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