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n. (context chiefly non-US English) (''taboo slang'') A severe reprimand.
Usage examples of "bollocking".
I commenced to give him the most exquisitely phrased bollocking of his entire life.
Sometimes I wished they would just give us a bollocking, to get it out of the way.
Everybody was getting a bollocking for a party that had happened the weekend before.
He would then compose himself, after giving us a bollocking for not taking it seriously.
I get one of the sergeants to do all the dirty work, like handing out bollockings.
I get one of the sergeants to do all the dirty work, like handing out bollockings.
Seeing Rachel wrinkling her long elegant nose at the smell of dog and game-keeper's ferret, which always surfaced on hot days, Lysander let rip with air freshener and fly spray and got a bollocking for using aerosols.