bollocks
noun/ˈbɒləks/
/ˈbɑːləks/
(British English, offensive, slang)- [uncountable] an offensive word for ideas, statements or beliefs that you think are silly or not true synonym nonsense
- You're talking a load of bollocks!
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- [plural] a man’s testicles
- Bollocks!exclamation used as a swear word when somebody is disagreeing with something, or when they are angry about something
- Bollocks! He never said that!
Word Originmid 18th cent.: plural of bollock, variant of earlier ballock, of Germanic origin; related to ball ‘spherical object’.
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