The definition of a cesspool is a gross, disgusting or corrupt place, or an underground storage for sewage from sinks and toilets.
A place that is filthy dirty and gross is an example of a cesspool.
- a deep hole or pit in the ground, usually covered, to receive drainage or sewage from the sinks, toilets, etc. of a house
- a center of moral corruption
Origin of cesspoolfrom uncertain or unknown; perhaps Italian cesso, privy from Classical Latin secessus, place of retirement (in LL, privy, drain): see secede
- A covered hole or pit for receiving drainage or sewage, as from a house.
- A filthy, disgusting, or morally corrupt place.
Origin of cesspoolPerhaps alteration (influenced by pool 1) 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 .