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bollock|ˈbɒlək|
[var. ballock.]
1. pl. The testicles. Cf. ballock 1.
1744School of Venus in D. Thomas Long Time Burning (1969) 362 You..can now without blushing call prick, stones, bollocks, cunt, tarse and the like names. 1763Wilkes & Potter Essay on Woman (1871) 19 Prick, cunt, and bollocks in convulsions hurl'd. 1874Lett. fr. Friend in Paris II. 158 At the same time handling the noble bollocks. 1968Landfall XXII. 17 Fine specimen of a lad, my Monty. All bollocks and beef.
2. Naut. Either of two blocks fastened to the topsail-yard, for the topsail-ties to reeve through.
1889Cent. Dict., Bollock-block. 1898Ansted Dict. Sea Terms, Bollocks, blocks secured to the middle of the topsail yards in large ships; the topsail ties pass through them, and thereby gain an increase of power in lifting the yards.
3. pl. (See quot. 1919); also, a mess, a muddle; nonsense (also as int.). As adj., naked. low slang. Cf. ballock 2.
1919Downing Digger Dial. 12 Bollocks (n. or adj.), absurd; an absurdity. 1950G. Wilson Brave Company (1951) viii. 142 He's stark bollock. Ibid. ix. 159 Christ, what a bollocks. 1969It 11–24 Apr. 15/2 Bollocks, nobody at all wants to know. Ibid. 15/3 It's really a load of bollocks.
▸ In pl. With the. = dog's bollocks n. (b) at dog n.1 Additions
1981Superbike Sept. 30 (heading) The Absolute Bollocks. 1993Echoes 25 Dec. 20/3 Check the superb organ solos on Dr Magic, and the full-on disco madness of Blow Your Whistle if you still don't believe. Knock me down with a feather guv, this is the bollocks. 1995Loaded July 124/4 It was me who had a penthouse suite overlooking the harbour and Opera House. It was the bollocks—it even said ‘Greetings Mr Beer’ on the telly. 2006B. George & L. Hardy Bobby Dazzler i. 4, I wasn't impressed at all by what I saw and told him so. ‘Malcolm, if this lot here are really the bollocks, then one day I could be the best player in the world.’
▸ Brit. slang (orig. and chiefly Mil.). to drop a bollock: to make a serious mistake. Cf. to drop a brick at brick n.1 5c, to drop a clanger at clanger n.
[1942G. Lersh Nine Lives Bill Nelson iii. 16 ‘He dropped you a——’ and he names an essential appendage of the masculine anatomy..that never comes singly. To drop one of these, in the jargon of the Guardsmen, is to make a serious blunder. To drop one for someone else is to let him down.] 1948E. Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 62 Drop a bollock, clanger, goolie, to make a serious blunder. To drop a bollock for someone was to get him in trouble, let him down. 1970P. Laurie Scotland Yard ii. 45 You see why this is such a valuable form of instruction. They'll never drop a bollock like that again. You see them maturing overnight. 1990A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army (1991) xi. 151 Rival regiments..wait for him ‘to make a major Horlicks’. ‘If you drop a bollock then’, said one who only just survived the experience, ‘you've had it’. 2000Front Oct. 92/2 Consternation showed clearly on their faces. Someone had dropped quite a bollock.
▸ Brit. slang. to—— one's bollocks off: to—— intensely, vigorously, or to excess. Cf. to work one's arse off at arse n. Additions a.
Virtually any verb denoting intense or continuous effort may appear in this formation, although to work is the most common.
1981P. Willis Learning to Labor ii. 14 Bannister's there sweating, sweating his bollocks off all day while Spanksy's doing fuck all, and he's enjoying it. 1989Independent 15 Mar. 21/4, I don't mind working my bollocks off. 1992New Musical Express (BNC) 10 Oct. Jebb laughed his bollocks off. 1995Private Eye 20 Oct. 5/2 They had him walking his bollocks off. Up and out by five, a trip to the pier before and after breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner—plus a midnight constitutional. 1998E. Brimson Hooligan xxxii. 94 Stanard was rushing his bollocks off on the violence. 2002Independent (Nexis) 13 May I saw this woman working her bollocks off—cleaning, tidying up, shopping—while all he did was order her around. |