bollocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒ.ləks/
rhymes: -ɒləks
ipa: /ˈbɒ.ləks/
rhymes: -ɒləks
Forms: form: bollock
form: ballocks
form: ballicks
form: ballix
form: bullocks
form: b******s
form: b****cks
Etymology: From Middle English ballokes (plural of ballok), from Old English beallucas (nominative plural of bealluc). By surface analysis, bollock + -s. Compare cullion.
Senses: synonyms: word: testicles
word: testes
word: acorns
word: agates
word: apples
word: apricots
word: bags
word: ballocks
word: balls
word: bangers
word: bannocks
word: baws
word: beans
word: bean bags
word: berries
word: bollocks
word: bolls
word: boys
word: bubbles
word: cherries
word: chicken nuggets
word: chuckles
word: clockweights
word: cobblers
word: cods
word: coin purse
word: cojones
word: crown jewels
word: cubes
word: cullions
word: eggs
word: family jewels
word: giggle berries
word: gonads
word: goolies
word: gooseberries
word: huevos
word: Jacobs
word: Jatz crackers
word: jawbreakers
word: klackers
word: knackers
word: lamb fries
word: loins
word: love spuds
word: marbles
word: nadgers
word: nads (UK
raw_tags: from gonads
word: US)
raw_tags: from gonads
word: nards
word: nuts
word: orchis
word: pebbles
word: plums
word: potatoes
word: pods
word: profiteroles
word: rocks
word: spuds
word: stepchildren
word: stones
word: store
word: sweetmeats
word: swingers
word: taters
word: teabags
word: tests
word: twins
word: watermelons
word: yams
word: yarbles
glosses: The testicles (sometimes used in the singular)
examples: text: That's a load of bollocks, mate!
text: All the dealers would steam into his cabin for a few sherbets after work, and to listen to his bollocks.
ref: 2014, Peter Smith, Confessions of a Dice Dealer, page 105:
synonyms: word: absurdity
word: all my eye
word: all my eye and Betty Martin
word: applesauce
word: bafflegab
word: balderdash
word: balls
word: baloney
word: banana oil
word: Bandini
word: baragouin
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bilgewater
word: blah
word: blather
word: blatherskite
word: bobbins
word: bollocks
word: bosh
word: BS
word: bull
word: bullcrap
word: bulldust
word: bull feathers
word: bullshit
word: bullspeak
word: bunk
word: bunkum
word: bushwah
word: clamjamfrey
word: claptrap
word: cobblers
word: codswallop
word: crap
word: crock
word: crock of shit
word: double Dutch
word: double talk
word: doublespeak
word: dribble
word: drivel
word: eyewash
word: fiddle-faddle
word: flapdoodle
word: flim-flam
word: flizz
word: flummery
word: folderol
word: foolishness
word: footle
word: framis
word: fuckery
word: fuckry
word: fudge
word: galimatias
word: garbage
word: garble
word: gibber
word: gibberish
word: gobbledygook
word: gossip
word: Greek
word: guff
word: gup
word: hoax
word: hocus-pocus
word: hogwash
word: hokum
word: hooey
word: horsefeathers
word: horse hockey
word: horse piss
word: horse puckey
word: horseshit
word: humbug
word: Irish bull
word: jabber
word: jargon
word: jibber-jabber
word: jimjam
word: jive
word: junk
word: lallation
word: macaroni
word: malarkey
word: manure
word: meaninglessness
word: moonshine
word: mumbo jumbo
word: nertz
word: nonsense
word: pie in the sky
word: piffle
word: pigswill
word: poppycock
word: prattle
word: put-on
word: rhubarb
word: rhubarb rhubarb
word: rigmarole
word: rot
word: rubbish
word: ruse
word: santorum
word: shit
word: shite
word: skimble-skamble
word: squit
word: stuff
word: stuff and nonsense
word: tommy-rot
word: tosh
word: tush
word: trash
word: tripe
word: twaddle
word: wass
word: whiff-whaff
word: word salad
glosses: Nonsense or information deliberately intended to mislead.
examples: text: Don't mind him; he's only an oul' bollocks!
glosses: An idiot, an ignorant or disagreeable person.
raw_tags: used as singular
glosses: Ellipsis of the dog's bollocks.
Derived terms: Billy Big Bollocks
bolitics
bollock
bollocking
bollocks more like
bollocksology
bollocks to it
bollock up
bollocks up
kick bollocks scramble
kick in the bollocks
the dog's bollocks
top bollocks