Etymograph

English

grossology

From gross + -ology, invented by the writer Sylvia Branzei as a title of her 1992 non-fiction children’s book Grossology.

Formed from gross + -ology

Latin grossus ‘big’

Old French gros ‘swollen’

Middle English gros ‘large’

English gross

Today it means

noun The study of things that are indelicate or gross.

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

Etymograph / grossology