cesspool
An underground pit where sewage is heldAn underground pit where sewage is held.
» He fell into the cesspool and got covered from head to toe.
Meaning
2 sensesAn underground pit where sewage is held.
Sickergrube, Versitzgrube, Senkgrube
выгребна́я я́маvygrebnája jáma, сто́чный коло́децstóčnyj kolódec
(broadly, derogatory, figuratively)A filthy place.
Sumpf
клоа́каkloáka
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
Examples
4 sentencesHe fell into the cesspool and got covered from head to toe.
Back then, our grandparents had a cesspool which they sometimes had to empty.
Your arrogance won't get you anywhere and you'll end up abandoned in some cesspool's heap of shit.
I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
Origin
From earlier sesspool. Origin uncertain.From earlier sesspool. Origin uncertain.
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