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- From: ivan@erich.triumf.ca (Ivan D. Reid)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.australian
- Subject: Re: Bullocks/bollocks
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 04:41 PST
- Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
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- In article <42886@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>,
- tmarvan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Thomas Marvan) writes...
- >I've been here in San Diego for over a year now and I'm not sure if
- >my mind is deceiving me, but isn't the word bullocks/bollocks an
- >Australian slang expression for testicles? Someone with a Macquarie
- >dictionary might be able to help me....
- >
- Well, a bullock is a castrated virgin bull, to simplify the terminology
- in the Macquarie :-). Bollocks (or bollicks) is given as "Colloq: rubbish;
- nonsense. see ball^1 8", which gives "Colloq: a testicle". I don't think it's
- particularly Australian, as it seems to be fairly common in England (see some
- of Ronnie Barker's sketches, e.g. when he was trying to buy "bill hooks" :-).
-
- >
- >You see, there's a department store here in Southern California called
- >Bullock's, and its name has always struck me as kind of funny. Is
- >its Australian meaning the cause of my amusement, or am I going
- >crazy?
- You admit to being in San Diego for over a year. You must be crazy by
- now! (Otherwise you'd stick out like ... um ... dog's bollocks :-).
-
- Ivan Reid, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH. ivan@cvax.psi.ch
-