The 16 grossest words in the English language

Moist. Moist. Moist.

Now that the grossest word is out of the way, here are the others, as decided by Redditors, linguists, and other grumps.

Words can make your skin crawl. There are perfectly innocent ones that sound disgusting, and there are hideous meanings hidden behind innocent sounding words.

Vote on your least favourite from these selections

One hundred and forty-four

144. A gross! This comes from the French for 'large dozen', but is used in English to mean a dozen, dozens.

Gross!

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