Urgent question: If bollocks is the plural of bollock...

hatrickpatrick

...as in "one bollock", "two bollocks",

How can you say "a bollocks"?
As in "You little bollocks" or "He's a right bollocks"

knird evol

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

"He's a right bollocks"

I think the two of you are bollockseses.

Fizman

Usually the people I call 'little bollixes' or the like are too stupid to recognise any grammatical errors I make.

phasers

ah bollox off with your questions

micropig

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

...as in "one bollock", "two bollocks",

How can you say "a bollocks"?
As in "You little bollocks" or "He's a right bollocks"

They only come in pairs, like scissors.

or sheep

kwestfan08

Maybe is like cactus and cacti.

"Ya pair of bolloci! "

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Forget bollocks, one guy thought I had 2 ass holes!

Cos one day I walked into my local with my 2 mates and the barman goes

"Oh ****, here comes that bloke with the two ass holes!"

AnonoBoy

Bullocks? What's all this about Bullocks?

Take it to the farming forum for feck's sake! :mad:

Phill Ewinn

Isn't there two 'L's in bollocks??

I imagine "bollocks" refers to the actual set of gonads, no? And is therefore a singular? A bit like a sack of potatoes, it's full of spuds but the sack is just one.

link_2007

kwestfan08 wrote: »

Maybe is like cactus and cacti.

"Ya pair of bolloci! "

I also believe this works for luas

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.acc.umu.se/~samhain/summerofhate/courtcase.html

Mortimer then said that he wished to call Professor James Kingsley to give evidence as to the meaning of the word bollocks. Mr. Richie objected to the witness being called. However, the chairman said ''let's get it over with'', and Kingsley was called. Kingsley told the court that he was the Reverend James Kingsley, professor of English studies at Nottingham University. He said he was a former Anglican priest and also a fellow of the Royal Academy. Under questioning from Mortimer he then went into discussing the derivation of the word bollocks. He said it was used in records from the year 1000 and in Anglo Saxon times it meant a small ball. The terms was also used to describe an orchid. He said that in the 1961 publication of Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang, he had not taken into account the use of the word bollocks in the Middle Ages. He said it appears in Medievel bibles and veterinary books. In the bible it was used to describe small things of an appropriate shape. He said that the word also appears in place names without stirring any sensual desires in the local communities. Mortimer said that this would be similar to a city being called Maidenhead which didn't seem to cause the locals in the vicinity any problems. Mr Kingsley said that Partridge in his books wrote that bollocks remained in colloquial use down through the centuries and was also used to denote a clergyman in the last century. ''The word has been used as a nickname for clergymen. Clergymen are known to talk a good deal of rubbish and so the word later developed the meaning of nonsense,'' he said. ''They became known for talking a great deal of bollocks, just as old balls or baloney also come to mean testicles, so it has twin uses in the dictionary''. (...)

mattjack

http://www.google.ie/imgres?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&biw=800&bih=485&tbm=isch&tbnid=3-J4AoYQNpgWaM:&imgrefurl=http://www.knivesbynick.co.uk/historical_knives.htm&docid=a8nolmS_OlDcsM&imgurl=http://www.knivesbynick.co.uk/images/hi/knives/historical/bollock_knife.jpg&w=1024&h=768&ei=JZehT6_-CI27hAfR7P3rCA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=109&vpy=12&dur=389&hovh=143&hovw=180&tx=142&ty=44&sig=101514873492788278823&page=1&tbnh=143&tbnw=180&start=0&ndsp=7&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:64

This might add or take away from the thread

philstar

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

How can you say "a bollocks"?
As in "You little bollocks" or "He's a right bollocks"

cause he has two bollocks

Battered Mars Bar

Because you're spelling it wrong, it's bollox not bollock or bollocks and then the plural is bolloxes imo.

Now! There's currently 3,613 pages of intellectual & amusing threads by AHr's. If each thread contains a maximum of 9,999 posts before the mods step in and create a Part II does that mean when the number of pages in AH exceeds 9,999 that we'll have an After Hours 2.0

Archeron

kwestfan08 wrote: »

Maybe is like cactus and cacti.

"Ya pair of bolloci! "

Thats my excuse to never eat brocolli sorted, I'm fearful of dyslexic chefs.

Nozebleed

bollox is singular and bollocks is the plural...one would assume.

entropi

I wonder, will Dr. Bollocko be along to tell us who is correct, and who is wrong, very wrong?