gross vs off-color

gross

adj
  • Causing disgust. 

  • Lacking refinement; not of high quality. 

  • Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality. 

  • Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh. 

  • Highly or conspicuously offensive. 

  • Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed. 

  • Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts. 

  • Difficult or impossible to see through. 

noun
  • The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net. 

  • Twelve dozen = 144. 

  • The bulk, the mass, the masses. 

verb
  • To earn money, not including expenses. 

off-color

adj
  • Dirty, vulgar or obscene, especially in a way that is unpleasant. 

  • Feeling mildly unwell. 

  • Different than usual. 

  • Of the wrong color. 

How often have the words gross and off-color occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )