cojones en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /kəˈhoʊˌneɪs/
- /kəˈhoʊniːz/
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish cojones (“testicles, balls”). Doublet of cullion and culeus.
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only, slang, usually, vulgar) Synonym of balls (“testicles; courage, masculinity”).
Stepping right into a trap... Your biggest problem is that you got big cojones but nothing in your brains. I think Freud would have something to say about your obsession with my big cojones.
2005, Total Overdose, spoken by Ramiro “Ram” Cruz (Simon Prescott as Cesar Morales and Daniel E. Mora), Square Enix Europe; Eidos Interactive, via Deadline Games and Square Enix:The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.
2013 July 10, Daniel Prendergast, “‘You don’t have the cojones’: 54-year-old woman fronts up to would-be muggers who pointed gun at her chest”, in New York Post, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2016: