Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. pertaining to the testicles.

1888-94

‘Walter’ My Secret Life VIII 1691: Sophy would handle my balls gently at first, then squeeze one stone, then the other [...] Her conversation also had a ballocky tone.—‘Let’s feel your balls—how’s your bolly?’.

2. having large or powerful testicles.

192?		in E. Cray Bawdy Ballads (1970) 161: ‘Oh, this is me and no one else,’/ Says Bolakee Bill the Sailor [Simes:DLSS].
1927		Immortalia 109: ‘Open the door and let me in,’/ Said Ballochy Bill the Sailor.

3. (UK teen) general neg. intensifier.

2007

Skins ser. 1 ep. 1 [TV script] Sodding, fucking, bollocky shit, wank.

stark naked.

1976		R. Moore Dinosaur Bite 41: That feller told [the boys] to clear out of there or they’d go home ballocky bare-assed , with their pants shot off .
2010		W.G. Palmer Whirligig Dance 95: [T]o jump bollocky bare-assed off the dock and into the cold waters of Kaseecheewah.

nothing at all.

2000

J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 124: Slim is absolutely bollock-all to do with evolution.

the scrotum, container of testicles.

2003

Authorphillip ‘From Asia to Africa Part 11’ at MrDouble.com 🌐 Fuck me just look at his bollock bag. A few nights like this and his balls will be scraping the ground.

a general term of abuse; thus bollock-brained adj.

1984		A. Sayle Train to Hell 21: What a fucking nob-headed, shit-faced, bollock-brained, turd-shaped, prick-arsed, wanker-faced cunt!
2000		M. O’Farrell After You’d Gone (2001) 253: I wonder what old Bollockbrain Friedmann would have to say about that.
2002		www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk 16 Nov. 🌐 OK, the BBC could probably have worse presenters [...] but for the moment their favourite is still the bollockbrained bergasol-covered one.

a derog. term of address.

1991		R. Doyle Van (1998) 369: Come here you, Bollockchops, said Billy.
2001		N. Griffiths Sheepshagger 164: Oi, bollockchops. Yew gunner av a shot then or ar yew just gunner stand yer gawpin all fuckin day?

a general term of abuse.

1996		P. Hamilton Reality Dysfunction 983: It was one fuck of a lot smarter than your brain, bollockhead.

semen.

2003

Wardy ‘Yiffy Artwork’ on LionKing.org 🌐 So if you nail yourself in the eye with your own bollock yoghurt then tough – your mother always said playing with yourself would make you go blind.

see sweat one’s arse off under sweat v.²