Broke my bollix

It derives from side splitting or tits off.

I spell it bollocks, as opposed to bollix. I would pronounce them different. Bollix is pronounce Boll eeecks, bollocks is boll ox.

They can have different connotations. For example

" wud ya eva get ou of me face you stupid bollocks " you woulld emphasise the ox there, if you say bolleeeks it doesn't have the same eumph or clout to it? You could get laughed at in a degrading manner by someone.

If I thought or heard someone say something that was garbage or untrue, depending on how moronic the person waffling was, I could well retort " That's Bollocks " or " that is a total load of Bollocks, go on out of that " etc. It depends on what you are trying to infer.

I hope that might clear it up for you a little.

Oh yeah another one is when you get arrested or banged up and you haven't a hope of bail and you are getting bird for sure..that is plain and simple " caught by the bollocks " or " pants around me ankles and me arse in the air "

interestingly " caught by the bolleeecks " can be a reference to a friend who seems to have vanished for a while, whereas he is actually in the early stages, or later stages even, of a relationship that he has no option over because he is mad about her..... " caught by the bolleeeks ( she has him ).

“She’s got balls” f**k is that. Something to be admired?

@ Greg - Yes I fundamentality agree with your take on this. You are quite right about the different mannerisms and local dialect between different sides of the city. Being an erstwhile south sider I would definitely struggle with some local slang, once I get past Cadburys I actually haven't a clue where I am be honest? I basically have called the entire far Northside, once past say Cadbury's, as either Donaghmede, Coolock or Santry. I just play the southside card after that, which is a bit lazy in fairness, but unless I am going to Parnell Park or a date to the cinema in Omni, I would have no have reason to be over that far anyways. I do use the Grand in Malahide for carrying out my affairs, but I don't classify that as the city really, that is North County Dublin and always was. I do struggle with social climbing types or posh northsiders, I just don't get it at all? Why would you start climbing from the wrong side of the river? Talk about pissing into the wind?

I find northsiders great in fairness, very helpful and a charming aptitude to strangers which is admirable. Considering they can only ever meet me in the dark and that I am an almost 15 hundred year old Vampire Lord they have shown profound bravery in their communications. They were always sound. But some of those reserved climbing types on the coast road don't know what they are at, it looks cheap all said. They would get eaten up at a dinner party in Monkstown or Sandycove, I can hear the sneering giggles and dead pan from a mile away. No one does the posh chunt better than a genuine one from the South side, it is innate and watching clowns from Sutton, Howth, or wherever they fathom is in the same region, sat there struggling with a generic accent can be excruciating. Just wasting their time and its' at total load a bollocks when you think about it? They would get more respect if they started being themselves, no one really cares where you live, except the dicks who do care?

Just a small comment on your assertions Greg, forgive me for throwing this out there, but when dealing with adolescents as an inference I would tend to go for eeks or Bolleecks, which you are spelling Bollix, if you get me? I would associate it with the gender of my annoyance. Like I wouldn't call a teenage girl who upset things a bollocks or a bollix? More likely " stupa liiddle bitch, tramp, wagon, so and so. Which is interesting as when the female gender grows to adulthood I would be keeping the terminology, however no change in articulation? I may ramp up the nouns also, for example I would never refer to any female under say 17 years of age as a chunt or a tart, they have plenty of time to be hearing such descriptions, I wouldn't want to be spoiling it for them? Maybe that's bollix and you might call that a bit ageist or sexist, but it is just an observation that birds get a completely new vocabulary in terms of how their behavior is being perceived, whereas for blokes, they get the same vocab, but the pronunciation is changed. I think that is unique and really shows what a really great grasp of interpretation of the English language we have in Dublin. I notice when having the cupla focal with a Dub the convo can be a bit more understandable as when say talking with someone as Gaelige from say Galway, Kerry o r elsewhere. Kerry not so bad, Donegal minorly decipherable but they dovetail that with not talking to dubs anyways, but no, the worst is Mayo or Galway Irish, I haven't a phucking clue what they are on about, it is total bollocks altogether.

Thanks Layne Pitiful Oasis, it is really kind of you to share that.

I am struggling with the pronunciation of your name. I am saying Ry coo. How is that working out?