great gross
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of great gross
First recorded in 1525–35
Example Sentences
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Beneath the baking streets, on a broiling subway platform, the Gentleman Scholar and his date run into a colleague and her heavyset husband, whose pores leak great gross torrents of sweat.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2014
Humph!" said Hilary, receiving it, "knives by the great gross.
From Kincaid's Battery by Kimball, Alonzo
He was a great gross man, and his colour came and went on a large over-fed face; so that his uneasiness was obvious.
From London to Ladysmith via Pretoria by Churchill, Winston
The whole school was grinning uncomfortably, and the Faculty was acting as if it was sitting, individually and collectively, on seventeen great gross of red-hot pins.
From At Good Old Siwash by Fitch, George
A great, gross, material creature, deaf to song, blind to beauty, dead to the spirit.
From The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by London, Jack
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