Etymology

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Today it means: A testicle. Full definition →

Middle English ballok ← Old English bealluc
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited frombealluc“testicle”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromballok
  3. English todaybollock

From Middle English ballok, from Old English bealluc (“testicle”, literally “little ball”). By surface analysis, ball + -ock.

Words from the same roots

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