Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Ireland, UK, in the plural, vulgar)A testicle.

    You've got a bollock hanging out of your shorts.

    Hoden, Ei

    яйцо́jajcó

    яйце́jajcé

More definitions
  • a pulley-block at the head of a topmast
  • one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

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

plural: bollocks

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a pulley-block at the head of a topmast:bullock block
  • one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens:testistesticleorchisballballocknutegg

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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