Personally, I only associate gross with disgusting.
But these are facts that I have researched myself.
Well, I am actually Swedish, in my country's language the word "gross" means...
Something else, I honestly cannot remember what exactly.
...Really, I only remember it had a similar meaning to "dozen" in that it denoted a number of something. A
big number, which is undoubtedly due to the Germanic influences on the Swedish language... Hence the meaning for the Swedish word "grossist" I'd presume, which translates to "grocer" and essentially means "person who buys large amounts of goods in order to sell them on in smaller amounts to many other people." Basically.
The more you know!
-Mal