1. 1一頓臭罵(英式粗話)

    A bollocking is the telling-off itself — the angry talk you get when someone is very cross with you. “He gave me a bollocking” means he spoke to you sharply about what you did. It is British, informal, and rude, like the verb bollock. Among friends it can sound half-joking; from a boss it can feel heavy. Though actually you may also hear bollocking used as a strong “very” in older British talk (“a bollocking good time”), but that is another path. Here it is the .

組成bollock (to tell off angrily) + -ing (the act of doing it).

同家族的字

  • bollockthe verb this noun comes from
  • bollocksthe older body-part word sitting behind the slang

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

bollockingnoun

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    vulgarA severe reprimand.

    • "[…] He told me what to expect, he didn't wrap me in cotton wool, and was always a great guide who treated me the same as everybody else, which is really what I needed. He didn't treat me any differently from the male managers in his team. I got a bollocking the same way everyone else did!"

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