Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Remarkably great, big, vast in an often unpleasant way; (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive. · Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts. · Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed. · Causing disgust.
To earn money, not including expenses.
Twelve dozen = 144. · The total amount (of goods, money, etc) before taxes, expenses, exceptions, tares, or similar deductions are subtracted. · The bulk; the mass.
From Middle English gros (“large, thick, full-bodied; coarse, unrefined, simple”), from Old French gros, from Latin grossus (“big, fat, thick”, in Late Latin also “coarse, rough”), of uncertain further origin but perhaps related to Proto-Celtic *brassos (“great, violent”).
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