bollix

Other forms of bollix

past tense

bollixed·

present participle

bollixing·

third person

bollixes·

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 bollix

What does bollix mean?

bollix means "make a mess of, destroy or ruin".

How many syllables are in bollix?

bollix has 2 syllables: bol-lix. The stress falls on "lix".

What is another word for bollix?

Close synonyms include botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up. 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 bollix a common word?

bollix 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.