What does bollocking mean?

bollocking

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English

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British usage

""[…] 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!""

bollockings (plural)

bollock

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