bollocksed

Your best wasn't good enough. The least you could do is lose with some dignity and grace."

"For all your talk of a XXX, we bollocksed this up pretty good, didn't we?"

Negative uses "Talking bollocks" and "bollockspeak" "Talking bollocks" generally means talking nonsense orbullshit, for example: "Don't listen to him, he's talking bollocks", or "... talking absolute bollocks". Another example is "I told Maurice that he was talking bollocks, that he was full of shit and that his opinions were a pile of piss. (Rhetoric was always my indulgence.)" "Talking bollocks" in a corporate context is referred to as bollockspeak. Bollockspeak tends to bebuzzword-laden and largely content-free, likegobbledygook: "Rupert, we'll have to leverage our synergies to facilitate aparadigm shiftby Q4" is an example of management bollockspeak. There is a whole parodic book entitled The Little Book of Management Bollocks. When a great deal of bollocks is being spoken, it may be said that the 'bollocks quotient' is high. A "bollocks" (singular noun) Comparable tocock-up,screw-up, balls-up, etc. Used with theindefinite article, it means a disaster, a mess or afailure. It is often used pejoratively, as in to have "made a bollocks out of it", and it is generally used throughoutBritainandIreland. Bollocks up (transitive verb) To bollocks something up means "to mess something up". It refers to a botched job: "Well, you bollocksed it up that time, Your Majesty!" or "Bollocksed up at work again, I fear. Millions down the drain". To "drop a bollock" To "drop a bollock" describes the malfunction of an operation, or messing something up, as in many sports, and in more polite business parlance, dropping the ball brings play to an unscheduled halt. Bollocking Noun A "bollocking" usually denotes a robust verbal chastisement for something which one has done (or not done, as the case may be), for instance: "I didn't do my homework and got a right bollocking off Mr Smith", or "A nurse was assisting at an appendix operation when she shouldn't have been ... and the surgeon got a bollocking". Actively, one gives or delivers a bollocking to someone; in the building trade one can 'throw a right bollocking into' someone. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the earliest meaning as "to slander or defame" and suggests that it entered the English language from the 1653 translation of one of Rabelais' works, which includes the Middle French expression "en couilletant", translated as "ballocking". The earliest printed use in the sense of a severe reprimand is, according to the OED, from 1946. Adjective Bollocking can also be used as a reinforcing adjective: "He hasn't a bollocking clue!" or "Where's me bollocking car?" "A kick in the bollocks" "A kick in the bollocks" is used to describe a significant set-back or disappointment, e.g. "I was diagnosed with having skin cancer. Ye Gods! What a kick in the bollocks". "Freeze (or work) one's bollocks off" To freeze one's bollocks off means to be very cold. To "work one's bollocks off" is to work very hard. This phrase is sometimes used by or about women:Boy Georgereferred to his mother "working her bollocks off" at home. "Bollock naked" "Bollock naked" is used in the singular form to emphasise being completely nude: "he was completely pissed and stark bollock naked". Bollocks (singular noun) In Ireland, "bollocks", "ballocks" or "bollox" can be used as a singular noun to mean a despicable or notorious person, for instance: "Who's the old ballocks you were talking to?", or conversely as a very informalterm of endearment: "Ah Ted, ye big bollocks, let's go and have a pint!". In Dublin it can be spelled "bollix". "Bollocksed" Multiple meanings, also spelled "bolloxed" or "bollixed": 1. Exhausted: "I couldn't sleep at all last night, I'm completely bollocksed!" 2. Broken: "My foot pump is bollocksed." 3. An extreme state of inebriation or drug-induced stupor: "Last night I got completely bollocksed". 4. Hungover (or equivalent): "I drank two bottles of gin last night, I'm completely bollocksed." 5. Made a mistake: "I tried to draw that landscape, but I bollocksed it up." The phrase "bollocksed up" means to be in a botched, bungled, confused or disarrayed state; e.g. "He managed to bollix up the whole project." In theprintingandnewspaperindustries, dropping aCalifornia Jobtype caseofmoveable type– spilling the contents – was a classic example of "bollocksing up the works". The box was called "pied". "Bollocksed" in that sense meant "beyond all repair". Web design "Dog's bollocks syndrome" is a term used byweb designersto over-designed websites that have more flash than might be needed or justified.