What does bollocks mean? Wordsmith explains Irish expletive Bollocks used to be ‘ballocks’, dating right back to the Anglo-Saxons (the word not the bollocks) It’s related to ball and was completely neutral - just as intestines were otherwise known as
Ballocks - Etymology, Origin Meaning - Etymonline "round object, compact spherical body," also "a ball used in a game," c 1200, probably from an unrecorded Old English *beal, *beall (evidenced by the diminutive bealluc "testicle"), or from cognate Old Norse bollr "ball," from Proto-Germanic *balluz (source also of Dutch bal, Flemish bal, Old High German ballo, German Ball), from PIE root *bhel
ballocks - Wiktionary, the free dictionary ballocks (third-person singular simple present ballockses, present participle ballocksing, simple past and past participle ballocksed) Alternative form of bollocks
ballocks - WordReference. com Dictionary of English bollocks ˈbɒləks , ballocks, US bollix ˈbɒlɪks slang pl n another word for testicles See testicle; nonsense; rubbish; interj an exclamation of annoyance, disbelief, etc; Etymology: Old English beallucas, diminutive (pl) of beallu (unattested); see ball 1 '