cock-and-ball story
cock-and-ball story noun: eggcorn of cock-and-bull story.
Noun
cock-and-ball story (plural cock-and-ball stories)
- Eggcorn of cock-and-bull story.
- Upon complaining, I got a "cock-and-ball" story that they had told me it only supported 133MHz on the phone - too bad for them that every phone call made by/into the office is automatically tape-recorded!1996 March 16, David Burch <daveb@softword.demon.co.uk>, “Re: OEM motherboards”, in comp.periphs.scsi (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2026
- With the lack of factual sex education in this country, there are still people who actually take these "cock-and-ball stories" quite literally and end up severely oversimplifying our sexual development.2010, Jallen Rix, “Sexuality and Spirtiuality — Twins Hatches from the Same Egg”, in Ex-Gay, No Way: Survival and Recovery from Religious Abuse, Findhorn Press, via Internet Archive, →ISBN, page 153
Forms of cock-and-ball story
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Questions about cock-and-ball story
- What does cock-and-ball story mean?
- Cock-and-ball story means eggcorn of cock-and-bull story.
- What part of speech is cock-and-ball story?
- Cock-and-ball story is a noun.
- What is the plural of cock-and-ball story?
- The plural of cock-and-ball story is cock-and-ball stories.
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