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bollocks en · INTJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English ballokes (plural of ballok), from Old English beallucas (nominative plural of bealluc). By surface analysis, bollock + -s. Compare cullion.
Meanings
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(Ireland, UK, transitive, vulgar) An expression of anger, frustration, etc.
Oh bollocks, I'm late for work!
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(Ireland, UK, transitive, vulgar) An expression of incredulity.
Bollocks! That never happened!
Forms
Synonyms
Horlicks · screw this (expression of frustration) · dammit (expression of anger) · bullshit (expression of incredulity)
Translations (24)
fr putain (an expression of incredulity) · it merda (expressing anger, frustration) · it cazzo (expressing anger, frustration) · fr les boules (expressing anger, frustration) · fr merde (an expression of incredulity) · mi he meho (an expression of incredulity) · pt essa agora (an expression of incredulity) · el παπάρια (expressing anger, frustration) · el γάμα τα (expressing anger, frustration) · fr putain de merde (expressing anger, frustration) · it puttana (expressing anger, frustration) · fr vingt dieux (expressing anger, frustration) · es me cago en la puta (expressing anger, frustration) · pt o caralho (an expression of incredulity) · fr merde (expressing anger, frustration) · es mierda (expressing anger, frustration) · el σκατά (expressing anger, frustration) · es chingados (expressing anger, frustration) · fr putain (expressing anger, frustration) · es hostia (expressing anger, frustration) · pt mas por que (an expression of incredulity) · pt boh (an expression of incredulity) · pt poh (an expression of incredulity) · es cojones (expressing anger, frustration)
bollocks en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English ballokes (plural of ballok), from Old English beallucas (nominative plural of bealluc). By surface analysis, bollock + -s. Compare cullion.
Meanings
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(Ireland, UK, plural, plural-normally, vulgar) The testicles.
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(Ireland, UK, plural, plural-normally, vulgar, with singular agreement) An idiot; an ignorant or disagreeable person.
—I’m a ballocks, he said, shaking his head in despair. I am and I know I am.
1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:He […] had come through Borstal institutions, mostly, I would say, by sucking up to bullying big bollixes the likes of James.
1958, Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy:
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(Ireland, UK, plural, plural-normally, vulgar) Nonsense; rubbish.
That's a load of bollocks, mate!
All the dealers would steam into his cabin for a few sherbets after work, and to listen to his bollocks.
2014, Peter Smith, Confessions of a Dice Dealer, page 105:
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(Ireland, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, plural, plural-normally, vulgar) Ellipsis of the dog's bollocks.
Forms
Deriveds
Billy Big Bollocks · bollock up · kick in the bollocks · Billy bollocks · the dog's bollocks · bollocksology · kick bollocks scramble · bollocking · bollocks up · bollock · bollocks to it · top bollocks · bollocks more like · bolitics
Synonyms
apples · cherries · bags · bulldust · knackers · rubbish · acorns · beans · baloney · nads (UK · love spuds · crap · bubbles · bobbins · bullcrap · lallation · bunk · skimble-skamble · hoax · batshit · double Dutch · bullshit · gooseberries · jabber · testes · garbage · all my eye · double talk · applesauce · blather · bollocks · squit · baws · horse puckey · horseshit · twins · stepchildren · horse cock · claptrap · Irish bull · gobbledygook · rot · gash · hogwash · blah-blah-blah · Jatz crackers · baragouin · bolls · put-on · yarbles · footle · bangers · drivel · testicles · store · flim-flam · jibber-jabber · teabags · hokum · horse hockey · bull feathers · stones · jawbreakers · crown jewels · yams · ruse · trittle trattle · klackers · bunkum · gossip · wass · garble · gibberish · taters · codswallop · sweetmeats · nuts · pigswill · bullspeak · family jewels · huevos · santorum · giggle berries · gonads · lamb fries · moonshine · gibber · Bandini · marbles · loins · jabberwocky · word salad · trash · flapdoodle · pebbles · absurdity · horse piss · profiteroles · chicken nuggets · spuds · Gallophone · Jacobs · banana oil · cullions · cojones · clockweights · stuff and nonsense · macaroni · nertz · tommy-rot · dribble · rhubarb rhubarb · manure · goolies · fudge · flizz · fiddle-faddle · eggs · ballocks · blah · mumbo jumbo · rhubarb · bean bags · balls · BS · shite · batcrap · nards · coin purse · twaddle · hocus-pocus · plums · cobblers · apple grease · nonsense · fuckry · prattle · eyewash · flummery · agates · berries · crock of shit · bannocks · bafflegab · humbug · blatherskite · meaninglessness · balderdash · galimatias · blah-blah · guff · crock · cubes · doublespeak · whiff-whaff · shit · framis · malarkey · foolishness · jimjam · all my eye and Betty Martin · Greek · US) · clamjamfrey · cobblers · bushwah · bollocks · swingers · boys · junk · jargon · potatoes · fuckery · bilgewater · rigmarole · gup · tosh · tests · bosh · cods · piffle · orchis · pods · horsefeathers · bull · jive · chuckles · tripe · folderol · apricots · tush · nadgers · hooey · rocks · poppycock · balls · pie in the sky · watermelons · stuff
Translations (54)
no pokker (testicles) · it coglionata (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · de Eier (testicles) · de Nüsse (testicles) · ru я́йца (testicles) · it testicoli (testicles) · de Quatsch mit Soße (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · pt colhões (testicles) · el παπαριές (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · it balle (testicles) · fr conneries (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · es cojones (testicles) · ca collons (testicles) · tr saçma (an idiot or disagreeable person) · it coglione (an idiot or disagreeable person) · fi moska (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · it coglioni (testicles) · fi pallit (testicles) · ru ерунда́ (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · es falsedad (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · mk тикви со расол (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · fr foutaises (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · pt tretas (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · fr jean-foutre (an idiot or disagreeable person) · es huevos (testicles) · fi munat (testicles) · it balle (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · it cazzate (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · he שְׁטוּיוֹת (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · fi kassit (testicles) · el αρχίδια (testicles) · fr bijoux de famille (testicles) · it palle (testicles) · fr malcomprenant (an idiot or disagreeable person) · ru мудя (testicles) · pt otário (an idiot or disagreeable person) · zh 放屁 (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · sv balle (testicles) · ru приду́рок (an idiot or disagreeable person) · it palle (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · el μαλακίες (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · el κολοκυθάκια με την ρίγανη (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · tr palavra (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · es bolas (testicles) · pt besteira (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · fr couillon (an idiot or disagreeable person) · he זִיּוּן־שֵׂכֶל (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · pt baboseira (slang: complete nonsense or worthless misinformation deliberately intended to mislead) · da nosser (testicles) · he אֲשָׁכִים (testicles) · fr pruneaux (testicles) · fr valseuses (testicles) · he בֵּיצִים (testicles) · fr couilles (testicles)
bollocks en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English ballokes (plural of ballok), from Old English beallucas (nominative plural of bealluc). By surface analysis, bollock + -s. Compare cullion.
Meanings
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(Ireland, UK, transitive, vulgar) To break.
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(Ireland, UK, transitive, vulgar) To fail (a task); to make a mess of.
Forms
Deriveds
bollocks up
Translations (4)
fr foirer (to fail (a task)) · fr chier dans la colle (to fail (a task)) · fr péter (to break) · it incasinare (to fail (a task))
bollocks en · VERB · etymology 2
Pronunciation
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Meanings
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(Ireland, UK, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person, transitive, vulgar) third-person singular simple present indicative of bollock
Forms