BOLLOCKS

botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up

(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin; “I botched the dinner and we had to eat out”; “the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

bollocks pl (plural only)

(British, Ireland, vulgar) The testicles (sometimes used in the singular)

(British, Ireland, vulgar) Nonsense or information deliberately intended to mislead.

(Ireland, vulgar, used as singular) An idiot, an ignorant or disagreeable person.

(British, vulgar) A contraction of the dog's bollocks.

Synonyms

• (testicles): See also testicles

• (nonsense): See also nonsense

Verb

bollocks (third-person singular simple present bollockses, present participle bollocksing, simple past and past participle bollocksed)

(transitive, British, taboo, slang) To break.

(transitive, British, taboo, slang) (also bollocks up) To fail (a task); to make a mess of.

Interjection

bollocks

(British, Ireland, taboo, slang) An expression of anger, frustration, etc.

(British, Ireland, taboo, slang) An expression of incredulity.

Synonyms

• Horlicks (euphemism)

• (expression of anger): See Thesaurus:dammit

• (expression of frustation)

See Thesaurus:screw this

• (expression of incredulity): See Thesaurus:bullshit

Etymology 2

See bollock

Verb

bollocks

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bollock

Source: Wiktionary



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