sesspool

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”).

sesspool (plural sesspools)

1. Archaic form of cesspool.

• “sesspool”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.