ballock

1. 1.

   one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

   “she kicked him in the balls and got away”

   Synonymstestistesticleorchisballbollocknutegg

   Broadermale reproductive glandgonad

   Narrowercobblersundescended testis

   Part ofmale reproductive systemmale genitalia

   Partstesticular arterytesticular veinseminiferous tubuleepididymisrete testisvas deferens

Other forms of ballock

plural

ballocks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ballock

What does ballock mean?

ballock means "one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens".

How many syllables are in ballock?

ballock has 2 syllables and divides as bal-lock under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ballock?

Close synonyms include testis, testicle, orchis, ball, bollock. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ballock a common word?

ballock is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.