ballocking n.2
a severe telling off, a scolding.
![]() | Of Love And Hunger 23: Playfair’s been raising ruddy hell. Gave me a god-awful rolluxing Monday. | |
![]() | Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 51: The Mate saw me and gave me a bollocking and told me to go inside. | diary 9 Feb. in|
![]() | Goodbye to The Hill (1966) 37: The oul’ fella tried to give me a ballocking, but she told him to shut up. | |
![]() | Owning Up (1974) 111: Mike Lawrence, the singer who had been given such a bollocking by Doreen Porter’s mum. | |
![]() | You Flash Bastard 47: He raised some reports and motioned Sneed into a chair with them. That was a good sign, he obviously wasn’t about to be censured; ballockings were received in a very upright position before the DCS’s desk. | |
![]() | in Knuckle Sandwich 10: If you’re late you get a bollocking. | |
![]() | Only Fools and Horses [TV script] Is it my fault you married a wrong ’un? It’s no reason to give me a bolly. | ‘To Hull and Back’|
![]() | Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 42: I’m in for a right bollocking here. | |
![]() | How to Shoot Friends 28: I waited in trepidation for the bollocking I thought I’d get. | |
![]() | Guardian G2 23 Nov. 16: Someone cared enough to give him a good bollocking. | |
![]() | Guardian G2 27 Apr. 4: ‘It’s not about bullying,’ says Ramsey of his ‘bollockings’. | |
![]() | Locked Ward (2013) 224: ‘Got over that bollocking Geraldine gave you?’ ‘Wow! [...] she was angry all right. Tore strips off me’. | |
![]() | Blood Miracles 56: He hauls Tony Cusack out of Ryan’s head and into his bollocking. | |
![]() | Base Nature [ebook] ‘[S]he’ll produce someone too important to wear a uniform what’ll give us a bollocking’. | |
![]() | Braywatch 100: ‘[M]y daughter gave him a serious bollocking’. |