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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bollix

"bungle," respelling (perhaps euphemistic) of bollocks, plural of bollock "testicle," from Old English beallucas "testicles," from Proto-Germanic *ball-, from PIE *bhel- (2) "to inflate, swell" (see bole). Related: Bollixed; bollixing.

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bollix

n. 1 confusion 2 mess vb. 1 to confuse 2 to botch or bungle

WordNet
bollix

v. make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]

Usage examples of "bollix".

In other words, the presence of aliens with non-human intelligence might well bollix the works.

The shipments were bollixed, the transshipments were misrouted, and in the end, even the swizzleskid industries felt it.

The shipments were bollixed, the transshipments were misrouted and, in the end, even the swizzleskid industries felt it.

The shipments were bollixed, the trans-shipments were misrouted, and in the end, even the swizzleskid industries felt it.

In spite of the fact that it seems to bollix up everything from electric lights to moving gears.

Yamato had lost his car keys that morning and he wanted to ask Madame de Bollix where they were.

Krite, Yamato and I could briefly visit Madame de Bollix if he wanted to waste his money that way.

Madame de Bollix came through another series of hanging glass beads at the back of the room and walked up to the circular wooden table with folding chairs around it.

Madame de Bollix sat across from us with her hands in her lap and gave us a somber, aristocratic smile, as if pleased with something wholly unrelated to us.

Madame de Bollix lifted her arms onto the table, and she was wearing so many metal bracelets of different thicknesses and shapes that she clanked, just by clasping her fingers together.

Yamato pulled his wallet from his pants and handed Madame de Bollix a twenty and three ones.

Madame de Bollix remained silent, with her eyes closed, without any movement or obvious results, for at least a minute.

Madame de Bollix said, tilting her head back, as if sloshing the visions to the back of her skull.

Madame de Bollix sighed loudly and leaned her head forward, slowly opening her eyes and staring at Yamato and me with a kind of grim confusion.

Now, after the way the occupation forces had bollixed decades of hard work, they dared not raise that issue.