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cojones

noun
/kəˈhoʊˌneɪs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cojones (“testicles, balls”). Doublet of cullion and culeus.

  1. borrowed from cojones

Definitions

  1. Synonym of balls (“testicles

    Synonym of balls (“testicles; courage, masculinity”).

    • Stepping right into a trap... Your biggest problem is that you got big cojones but nothing in your brains. I think Freud would have something to say about your obsession with my big cojones.
    • The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cojones. 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