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But, if the ballocks be marred, the whole race of human kind would forthwith perish, and be lost for ever.
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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 informal term of endearment: "Ah Ted, ye big bollocks, let's go and have a pint!". In Dublin it can be spelled "bollix".
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From them are descended the ballocks of Lorraine, which never dwell in codpieces, but fall down to the bottom of the breeches.
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From the 17th to the 19th century, bollocks or ballocks was allegedly used as a slang term for a clergyman, although this meaning is not mentioned by the OED's 1989 edition. For example, in 1684, the Commanding Officer of the Straits Fleet regularly referred to his chaplain as "Ballocks". It has been suggested that bollocks came to have its modern meaning of "nonsense" because some clergymen were notorious for talking nonsense during their sermons.According to Merriam Webster the term has been used before the 12th century.
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The dog's bollocks or dog's ballocks is an outdated typographical construction consisting of a colon followed by a hyphen or dash (i.e. or ), which was at one time used to indicate a restful pause. The phrase—after the construction's phallic appearance—appeared at least as early as 1949, as cited by the Oxford English Dictionary and etymologist Eric Partridge. The construction is primarily seen in British English, particularly in formal texts such as legal documents.
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In his reply to Pound, Joyce gave permission to use "I hear an Army" and enclosed Dubliners and the first chapter of his novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Pound wrote to Joyce that the novel was "damn fine stuff". Harriet Shaw Weaver accepted it for The Egoist, which serialized it from 2 February 1914, despite the printers objecting to words like "fart" and "ballocks", and fearing prosecution over Stephen Dedalus's thoughts about prostitutes.
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