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▪ I. ballock|ˈbɒlək|
Not in polite use. Forms: 1 bealluc, 4 ballok, 4–5 ballokke, -oke, 5 balluk, -uc, balok, -ock, 6 ballocke, 6– ballock.
[Prob. a deriv. of Teut. ball- (see ball n.1), of which the OE. repr. would be *beall-u, -a, or -e.]
1. a. A testicle.
c1000Gloss. in Wright Voc. (W.) /265 Testiculi, beallucas. 1382Wyclif Lev. xxii. 24 Al beeste that..kitt and taken awey the ballokes is. 1486Bk. St. Albans, Hawking C viij, Geue hir the ballockye [1496 balockes] of a Buc. 1579Baker Guydon's Quest. Cyrurg. 33. 1721–1800 in Bailey. Not in J. 1966 J. K. Baxter Pig Island Lett. 35 I'd give my ballocks now For a bucket of steam.
†b. Comb. (all obs.): ballock-cod, the scrotum; ballock('s)-grass (also hare's ballocks and sweet ballocks), popular name of several species of orchis, from the shape of the tubers; ballock-hafted a., with a ball(ock)-shaped handle; ballock-knife, ? one worn at the girdle (cf. L. clūnāculum, f. clūnis); ballock-stone = ballock; ballock-wort, orchis.
c1450in Wright Voc. (W.) /599 Omembrana, balluc cod. Ibid. /677 Piga, balloke code. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 128 b, Whyt satyrion..or in other more vnmanerly speche, hares ballockes. 1578Lyte Dodoens 222 Some cal it also Orchis..Ballock grasse..and Bastard Satyrion. 1597Gerard Herbal i. cii. §4. 169 Orchis spiralis..some call them Sweet Ballocks. 1655Mouff. & Benn. Health's Impr. (1746) 313 Ballock's-grass, or Satyrium. 1438Test. Ebor. (1855) 63 Unum dagar ballokhefted. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 121 A ballok-knyf With botones ouergylte. c1460Towneley Myst. 236, I have brysten both my balok stones, So fast hyed I hedyr. c1450in Wright Voc. (W.) /609 Saturia, ballokwort.
2. pl. fig.
a. A person (in a state of entanglement or confusion). Cf. bollock 3.
1916Joyce Portr. Artist 272 I'm a ballocks, he said, shaking his head in despair. 1922― Ulysses 287 Who's the old ballocks you were talking to?
b. Nonsense. Cf. ball n.1 15 b.
1939J. Cary Mister Johnson 193 For God's sake, don't talk ballocks, Johnson.
3. Comb. ballock-naked adj., completely naked.
1922Joyce Ulysses 610 See them there stark ballock-naked.
▪ II. ˈballock, v. slang.
Also bollock.
[f. the n.; cf. bollock.]
trans. To reprimand or tell off severely. Freq. ˈballocking vbl. n., a severe reprimand; cf. rollicking vbl. n. 2.
1938Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Add. 978/1. 1948 ― Dict. Forces' Slang 9 Ballocking, bollocking. 1950C. MacInnes To Victors ii. 211 I'm going to give Frau Dieckhoff a good bollocking. 1959I. Jefferies Thirteen Days v. 63 He had been bollocking a sick man. 1967D. Pinner Ritual xviii. 176 He knew he would get a bollocking from his super. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 19 Jenny gave me a formulaic ballocking for not alerting her of my premature arrival. 1974P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry xi. 95, I got ballocked left, right and centre. 1978Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Feb. 199/1 Sir John French, CIGS, came down for open day at ‘The Shop’, gave everyone a bollocking for slackness and indiscipline, and shortly afterwards retired the Commandant. |