| 释义 |
bollix, v. low slang.|ˈbɒlɪks|
Also bollux.
[Alt. of bollocks, pl. of bollock.]
trans. To bungle, make a mess of, confuse; also with up. So ˈbollixed ppl. a.
1937J. Weidman I can get it for you Wholesale 36 Watch your script... You're getting your cues all bollixed up. 1945A. J. Liebling in Best Amer. Short Stories (1946) 275 He explained that a ratfest was ‘a rat race, but all bollixed up’. 1945A. Kober Parm Me 139 So rather I should tell it and maybe bollix up the whole thing, it's better that it should come from Billie. 1952Steinbeck East of Eden I. 478 He'd made a mess of things. He wondered if he'd bollixed up the breaks. 1953C. Armstrong Catch-As-Catch-Can xxii. 177 That skunk..bolluxed Pearl's radio.
Also as n., a mess, confusion.
1935Dylan Thomas Let. July (1966) 156 I've been meaning..to learn about..the bollix of the old gang. 1936‘G. Orwell’ Let. 3 Apr. (1968) I. 215 My novel..would have been out a month ago if it had not been for all that bollux about libel. 1957J. Blish Fallen Star v. 62 Some kind of intra-departmental bollix. |