cesspool

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  1. noun A covered hole or pit for receiving drainage or sewage, as from a house.
  2. noun A filthy, disgusting, or morally corrupt place.

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  • Sometimes a brook is taken in; a cesspool is then made to receive what gravel it may bring down after it has passed this pool, the water flowing through three or four little arches, and then over a paved bed and wall of masonry into the canal. —  The Life of Thomas Telford
  • Funny that Corsi has such appeal to white nationalists his appearance on right-wing extremist radio show the cesspool was streamed over stormfront radio. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Comment Is Free or on Indymedia was and antisemitic cesspool, then you haven't checked out Alhamdulillah, we belive in Allah. —  Harry's Place
  • Republicans should just flat out walk out of the chamber and announce: Anything coming out this cesspool is a Democrat idea, win, lose or draw. —  Latest Articles
  • (It is indeed becoming the new MySpace, which is to say a cesspool with bad writing, friend-whoring, and unverifiable identities.) —  reality blurred
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  1. Perhaps alteration (influenced by pool1) of obsolete cesperalle, drainpipe, from Middle English suspiral, vent, from Old French sospirail, breathing hole, from souspirer, to breathe, from Latin suspīrāre, to sigh; see suspire.

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  1. The orig. and correct spelling is sesspool; English dial. suspool, from English dial. suss, soss, a puddle, hog-wash, anything foul or muddy, a dirty mess (from Gaelic sos, any unseemly mixture of food, a coarse mess), + English pool.
 

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