GROSS, GROSSLY
ADJECTIVES
► EGREGIOUS remarkable in a bad sense; gross, flagrant, outrageous, extravagant, excessive → 1573
► LARGE of speech, etc.: free, unrestrained; in bad sense, lax, licentious, improper, gross → c1374 obs.
► LOW RENT base, gross, unacceptable, bad → 1968 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
► MINGIN ► MINGING smelly, disgusting, ugly, horrid, putrid, gross → playground sl.
► RANK gross, highly offensive or loathsome; in later use esp. grossly coarse or indecent → a1300
► REASTY bad-tempered; also, gross, obscene → 1825 Eng. dial.
ADVERBS
► EGREGIOUSLY grossly, monstrously, shamefully → a1555
NOUNS
► HORROR SHOW a surprising action, generally something gross → 1970 US students’ sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► FUSTILUGS a gross, fat, unwieldy person, especially a woman; a slovenly woman that smells rank; a person with a sour, forbidding aspect; a dirty child; a term of abuse→ 1607 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GAUNCH a gross or obnoxious person → 1954 US students’ sl.
► GROSSER a gross or unattractive person → 1979 Amer. students’ sl.
► PORKNELL one as fat as a pig; a fat, gross person → c1400 obs.
VERBS
► GRUB to be gross in manner → 1969 US Air Force Academy cadets’ sl. (Bk.)