cullion
Meanings
noun
- Synonym of testicle.
- Synonym of asshole or bollocks, a mean, vile, or otherwise contemptible person.
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Etymology
From Middle English coilon, borrowed from Old French coillon (“testicle, vile fellow, coward, dupe”), from Vulgar Latin *cōleōnem, from Latin cōleus (“sack, scrotum”). Doublet of culeus and cojones.
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