noun
Meaning 1
A testicle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, UK, in-plural, vulgar
Examples
- You've got a bollock hanging out of your shorts.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bollock
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
-
UK: /ˈbɒ.lək/
-
Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
-
rhymes with -ɒlək
verb
Meaning 2
To reprimand severely and grossly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, UK, transitive, vulgar
Examples
- The boss bollocked me for coming in late.
- The goalkeeper gave his defenders a bollocking when they made a mistake.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a pulley-block at the head of a topmast
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bullock block
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pulley, pulley-block, pulley block, block
noun
Meaning 4
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she kicked him in the balls and got away
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, nut, egg
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gonad, sex gland, male reproductive gland
Narrower terms: cobblers, undescended testis, undescended testicle
History
Etymology
From Middle English ballok, from Old English bealluc (“testicle”, literally “little ball”). By surface analysis, ball + -ock.
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: colló — Translations
- Czech: koule — Translations
- Danish: nosse — Translations
- Dutch: bal — Translations
- Dutch: kloot — Translations
- Finnish: palli — Translations
- French: couille — Translations
- French: rouston — Translations
- French: pruneau — Translations
- French: bonbon — Translations
- Old French: coille — Translations
- Galician: collón — Translations
- Georgian: სათესლე (satesle) — Translations
- Georgian: სათესლე ჯირკვალი (satesle ǯirḳvali) — Translations
- Georgian: ყვერი (q̇veri) — Translations
- Georgian: კვერცხი (ḳvercxi) — Translations
- German: Hoden — Translations
- German: Ei — Translations
- Greek: αρχίδι (archídi) — Translations
- Hungarian: tök — Translations
- Hungarian: here — Translations
- Hungarian: golyó — Translations
- Hungarian: mogyoró — Translations
- Italian: coglione — Translations
- Malay: telur — Translations
- Russian: яйцо́ (jajcó) — Translations
- Spanish: cojón — Translations
- Ukrainian: яйце́ (jajcé) — Translations
- Dutch: uitkafferen — Translations
- French: engueuler — Translations
- French: pourrir — Translations
- French: tancer — Translations
- French: mettre une chasse — Translations
- French: passer un savon — Translations
- German: anschnauzen — Translations
- German: anscheißen — Translations
- German: zusammenscheißen — Translations
- German: zusammenstauchen — Translations
- Bavarian German: zåmmpfeifn — Translations
- Bavarian German: zåmmputzn — Translations
- Bavarian German: zåmmscheißn — Translations
- Bavarian German: zåmmstauchn — Translations
- Greek: χέζω (chézo) — Translations
- Russian: дрючить (drjučitʹ) — Translations