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bollock

noun
/ˈbɒ.lək/UK

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from bealluc — “testicle”
  2. inherited from ballok

Definitions

  1. A testicle.

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

  2. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bollock. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA