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Definition of bollocks in English: bollocks(also ballocks) plural nounˈbɒləksˈbɑləks British vulgar slang 2treated as singular Nonsense; rubbish (used to express contempt or disagreement, or as an exclamation of annoyance). Synonyms nonsense, balderdash, gibberish, claptrap, blarney, blather, blether, moonshine
Origin Mid 18th century: plural of bollock, variant of earlier ballock, of Germanic origin; related to ball1. Bollocks used to be ballocks, and in that spelling they go back to the time of the Anglo-Saxons. The word is related to ball, and like many rude words it was perfectly standard English until around the 18th century. It is now used in several colourful expressions. A bollocking, or severe telling-off, is more genteelly written as a rollicking (mid 20th century), and it is more refined to make a Horlicks of (late 20th century) something than to make a bollocks of it. The dog's bollocks is a coarse version of expressions like the bee's knees or the cat's pyjamas, meaning ‘an excellent person or thing’, which was popularized in the late 1980s by the comic Viz.
Definition of bollocks in US English: bollocks(also bollix, ballocks) plural nounˈbäləksˈbɑləks British vulgar slang 2treated as singular Used to express contempt, annoyance, or defiance. Synonyms nonsense, balderdash, gibberish, claptrap, blarney, blather, blether, moonshine
Origin Mid 18th century: plural of bollock, variant of earlier ballock, of Germanic origin; related to ball. |