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Synonyms for balls

Most common

bottle ovaries non-sense guff clap-trap

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Nads — masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness

nuts, guts, bottle, spunk, nerve, ovaries, heart, pluck informal, family jewels, crown jewels, courage, audacity, chutzpah informal, daring, nads slang, rocks slang, stones slang, cojones vulgar slang US, goolies slang UK AU, yarblockos vulgar slang, yarbles vulgar

2. Crap — synonym of bollocks, nonsense

crap, bull, bullshit, rubbish, non-sense, guff, hogwash, hokum, drivel, bollocks vulgar UK IE, bunkum dated

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.

    Balls is all that it takes to succeed.

  2. n. 2

    Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.

Example sentences

  • bottle Tom accidentally knocked over the bottle of water.
  • ovaries The surgical removal of an ovary or ovaries is called an oophorectomy.
  • guff And don't give me any guff about it.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
ballsrising
bottlerising
ovariesfalling
guffrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
crap1, nuts1, bull1, guts1, guff1, nads
5 letters
heart1, rocks1, nerve1, pluck1, spunk1, hokum2
6 letters
bottle2, stones1, daring2, drivel2, bunkum
7 letters
courage2, rubbish2, ovaries3, hogwash2, cojones, goolies, yarbles
8 letters
bullshit2, audacity4, bollocks2, chutzpah2
10 letters
yarblockos

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hokum2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
couilles
Italiano
palle