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sesspool

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
sesspool
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Archaic form of cesspool.

Archaic

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”). Compare Goidelic ses (“a coarse mess”), English cess (“the boggy foreshore of a tidal river”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

sesspools (plural)

Questions

What does sesspool mean?
Archaic form of cesspool.
Where does sesspool come from?
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”). Compare Goidelic ses (“a coarse mess”), English cess (“the boggy foreshore of a tidal river”).

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