Synonyms for cesspool
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ses-pool |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛsˌpul |
Définition of cesspool
Origin :- also cess-pool, 1670s, the first element perhaps an alteration of cistern, perhaps a shortened form of recess [Klein]; or the whole may be an alteration of suspiral (c.1400), "drainpipe," from Old French sospiral "a vent, air hole," from sospirer "breathe," from Latin suspirare "breathe deep" [Barnhart]. Meaning extended to "tank at the end of the pipe," which would account for a possible folk-etymology change in final syllable.
- Other possible etymologies: Italian cesso "privy," from Latin secessus "place of retirement" (in Late Latin "privy, drain"); dialectal suspool, from suss, soss "puddle;" or cess "a bog on the banks of a tidal river."
- noun pit
- Scattering flowers upon a cesspool of iniquity will not purify it.
- Extract from : « Gipsy Life » by George Smith
- I should be the first to be ready to clean out any cesspool you like.
- Extract from : « Crime and Punishment » by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The "cesspool question" had already been a subject of dispute between them.
- Extract from : « Crime and Punishment » by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- When we pass a cesspool we close our noses and try not to breathe.
- Extract from : « A Family of Noblemen » by Mikhal Saltykov
- All the vice and misery of the country got thrown into that cesspool.
- Extract from : « Ravenshoe » by Henry Kingsley
- Are you there, oh dwellers in the cesspool of respectability?
- Extract from : « Windy McPherson's Son » by Sherwood Anderson
- His swans are not always immaculate, but they are not "swans of the cesspool," to quote Landor.
- Extract from : « Unicorns » by James Huneker
- It does not come within our province to enter into details as to the best method of building a cesspool.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
- (c) The cesspool is still the chief reliance of the world at large.
- Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I » by Various
- Human nature to him is a cesspool of villainy and corruption.
- Extract from : « Think » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
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