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bollocksing up

bollocksing up is the present participle and gerund of bollocks up.

Meaning of bollocks up

Verb

bollocks up (third-person singular simple present bollockses up, present participle bollocksing up, simple past and past participle bollocksed up)

  1. (Australia, Commonwealth, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, slang) To fail to do correctly; to make a mess of.
    • The webpage didn't display properly because I bollocksed up the formatting.

Questions about bollocksing up

What is bollocksing up the present participle and gerund of?
Bollocksing up is the present participle and gerund of bollocks up.

Words near bollocksing up in the dictionary

  1. bollocksed
  2. bollocksed up
  3. bollockses
  4. bollockses up
  5. bollocksing
  6. bollocksing up
  7. bollocksology
  8. bollocky
  9. bollox
  10. bolloxed
  11. bolloxes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bollocksing up (page history and authors); bollocks up (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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