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bollox

bollox is the alternative spelling of bollocks.

Meaning of bollocks

Noun

bollocks pl (normally plural, singular bollock)

  1. (Ireland, UK, plural, plural-normally, vulgar) The testicles.
  2. (Ireland, UK, plural, plural-normally, vulgar) An idiot; an ignorant or disagreeable person.
    • —I’m a ballocks, he said, shaking his head in despair. I am and I know I am.1916, James Joyce, chapter V, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC
  3. (Ireland, UK, plural, plural-normally, vulgar) Nonsense; rubbish.
    • That's a load of bollocks, mate!

See all 7 meanings of bollocks

Forms of bollox

Noun
pluralbolloxes
Verb
third-person singular presentbolloxes
present participlebolloxing
past participlebolloxed
pastbolloxed

Words formed from bollox

Questions about bollox

What is bollox the alternative spelling of?
Bollox is the alternative spelling of bollocks.

Words near bollox in the dictionary

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

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