See Also: sewage(medicine)
sewage(dictionary)
sewage(dictionary)
sewage system(encyclopedia)
sewage works(dictionary)
centralised sewage treatment(medicine)

fanciful (oh) and sewage (oh)


fanciful (oh)



imagined rather than based on facts - often used to show disapproval
::a fanciful story
::The suggestion that there was a conspiracy is not entirely fanciful.
full of unusual and very detailed shapes or complicated designs
::fanciful decorations
-- fancifully adv

sewage (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Origin: sewer]
the mixture of waste from the human body and used water that is carried away from houses by pipes under the ground
::Chlorine is used in sewage treatment.
::The factory secretly dumped millions of gallons of raw sewage (=that had not been treated) into the Ohio river.