bollock

Other forms of bollock

plural

bollocks·

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 bollock

What does bollock mean?

bollock means "one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bollock?

bollock has 2 syllables and divides as bol-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 bollock?

Close synonyms include testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock. 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 bollock a common word?

bollock is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.