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cojones

/kəˈhoʊˌneɪs/

cojones noun: synonym of balls (“testicles; courage, masculinity”).

Noun

cojones pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang, usually, vulgar) Synonym of balls (“testicles; courage, masculinity”).
    • Stepping right into a trap... Your biggest problem is that you got big cojones but nothing in your brains.
    • I think Freud would have something to say about your obsession with my big cojones.2005, Total Overdose, spoken by Ramiro “Ram” Cruz (Simon Prescott as Cesar Morales and Daniel E. Mora), Square Enix Europe; Eidos Interactive, via Deadline Games and Square Enix
    Synonyms:
    balls

Synonyms of cojones

Origin of cojones

Borrowed from Spanish cojones (“testicles, balls”). Doublet of cullion and culeus.

Questions about cojones

What does cojones mean?
Cojones means synonym of balls (“testicles; courage, masculinity”).
What part of speech is cojones?
Cojones is a noun.
How do you pronounce cojones?
Cojones is pronounced /kəˈhoʊˌneɪs/.

Words near cojones in the dictionary

  1. Cojocna
  2. cojoin
  3. cojoined
  4. cojoining
  5. cojoins
  6. cojones
  7. cojudge
  8. cojudges
  9. cojuror
  10. cojurors
  11. cojusticiar

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