English

greasebomb

From grease + bomb.

A compound of grease + bomb

Latin crassus ‘fat, thick’

Vulgar Latin *crassia ‘fat’

Anglo-Norman grece

Middle English grece

Ancient Greek βόμβος ‘booming, humming’

Latin bombus ‘a booming sound’

Italian bomba

French bombe

English bomb

Today it means

noun A greasy or fatty food item.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / greasebomb