complete bullocks
- noun
- /kəmˈpliːt ˈbʌlɒks/
- Offensive
:
pura mierda
- The report he gave was complete bullocks from start to finish.
Examples
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He claimed he met the Queen, but that's complete bullocks.
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Don't listen to her excuses; they're complete bullocks.
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That report is just complete bullocks.
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I can't believe you think that's complete bullocks!
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Don't listen to her excuses; they're complete bullocks.
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He claimed he met the Queen, but that's complete bullocks.
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The report he gave was complete bullocks from start to finish.
Synonyms
578
2.5
Words or ideas that do not make sense
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5.7
To say things that are not true or that make no sense
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6.0
Things people say that are completely untrue or pointless
Talk that is false and makes no sense
Talk that is false and hard to believe
A false statement said on purpose to trick people
A large amount of nonsense that is clearly untrue
A story or idea that is untrue and silly
Antonyms
How Credible
Surface Forms
Morphology
complete + bullocks
The sense 'nonsense' cannot be compositionally derived from 'complete' (an intensifier) plus 'bullocks' (literal young bulls/cattle or an unattested dictionary form). This phrase is an idiomatic/slang use (likely a variant of British 'bollocks') where the overall meaning is not predictable from the parts, so a B1 learner knowing the constituents would not infer the idiomatic sense.
Etymology
The phrase complete bullocks may come from the rude phrase complete bollocks. That rude word once meant 'testicles' but later became slang for 'nonsense', and people began using the animal word bullocks, meaning young bulls, as a softer form, so complete bullocks now means 'nonsense'.