cojones

/kəˈhoʊˌneɪs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.07 in modern English

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noun

Slang

"Stepping right into a trap... Your biggest problem is that you got big cojones but nothing in your brains. I think Freud would have something to say about your obsession with my big cojones."
"The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday."

Borrowed from Spanish cojones (“testicles, balls”). Doublet of cullion and culeus.

balls

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How do you pronounce cojones?

The recorded pronunciation is /kəˈhoʊˌneɪs/.

What does cojones mean?

Synonym of balls (“testicles; courage, masculinity”).

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