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balls on en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (Australia, New-Zealand, UK, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To blather.
    • Here was Oswald, trying to make the business a bit of money, to go out and find a few pictures to sell and a few clients to sell them to; and here was this youth ballsing on about Chatsworth and his weekends with Lady Lindisfarne. 2013, Philip Hook, The Stonebreakers, →ISBN:
    • “Can you tell me why it is,” said Ian in an aggressive way, “every time we go into a fucking pub you go ballsing on about bleeding Lance Platt. Can you tell me that?” 2010, Ruth Rendell, Portobello: A Novel, →ISBN, page 250:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
ballses on Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
ballsing on Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
ballsed on Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
ballsed on Tense=Past lexicographic