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blue-balling

blue-balling is the present participle and gerund of blue-ball.

Meaning of blue-ball

Verb

blue-ball (third-person singular simple present blue-balls, present participle blue-balling, simple past and past participle blue-balled)

  1. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To leave (a person, usually a man) sexually frustrated by denying them an orgasm or abruptly ending sexual contact.
    • “Stop blue-balling the guy and give in already.”2009, Kate Brian, Paradise Lost, Simon & Schuster UK, →ISBN, unnumbered page
  2. (broadly, idiomatic, transitive) To lead someone on or tease them with the promise of something desirable without actually delivering it, causing them to feel frustrated and unsatisfied.
    • Stop blue-balling me and tell me what happened!
    Synonyms:
    tease, lead on, tantalize

Origin of blue-balling

From blue balls.

Questions about blue-balling

What is blue-balling the present participle and gerund of?
Blue-balling is the present participle and gerund of blue-ball.

Words near blue-balling in the dictionary

  1. blue-and-yellow macaws
  2. blue-ball
  3. blue-balled
  4. blue-baller
  5. blue-ballers
  6. blue-balling
  7. blue-balls
  8. blue-banded eggflies
  9. blue-banded eggfly
  10. blue-banded sea krait
  11. blue-banded sea kraits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blue-balling (page history and authors); blue-ball (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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