Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Ireland, UK, vulgar)To reprimand severely and grossly.

    The boss bollocked me for coming in late.

    The goalkeeper gave his defenders a bollocking when they made a mistake.

    anschnauzen, anscheißen, zusammenscheißen

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Examples

2 sentences

  1. I've got a strange lump on my left bollock.

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  2. Tom'll give you a right bollocking if you talk to him like that.

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Translations

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Origin

From Middle English ballok, from Old English bealluc (“testicle”, literally “little ball”)

From Middle English ballok, from Old English bealluc (“testicle”, literally “little ball”). By surface analysis, ball + -ock.

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Forms

bollocks, bollocking, bollocked, bollocked
Base formbollock · to bollock
3rd person singularbollocks
Present participlebollocking
Past simplebollocked
Past participlebollocked

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybollock
he, she, itbollocks

Past simpleLesson

all personsbollocked

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bollocked
he, she, ithas bollocked

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bollock

Word family

1 related words
Derivedbollocking

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
boldB2boldlyB1boldnessbollocksbologna
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