yarbles
Meanings
Noun
- Testicles.
- Courage, fortitude, or machismo.
- Nonsense; something of unacceptably poor quality.
- Information that is false or otherwise misleading.
Intj
- Expressing disgust, annoyance, frustration, or disapproval.
Origin / Etymology
Yarbles was coined by Anthony Burgess in 1962, when he introduced it within the invented slang Nadsat found in his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. The word is generally understood to be a derivation from Russian яблоко (jabloko, “apple”), owing to the variant form "yarblockos" used within the same novel. Jabloko does not have the equivalent vulgar connotation among Russian speakers, although яйца (jajca, literally “eggs”) does, which may have influenced the word. Green's Dictionary of Slang posits possible alternate origins as yarb + balls: a combination of the antiquated, sometimes-derogatory English dialect word yarb with the vulgar colloquialism balls. Others have suggested a connection, via the methods of English rhyming slang, to marbles.
Synonyms
absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, audacity, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, Bandini, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bield, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, boldhead, boldness, bollocks, bosh, bravehood, braveness, bravery, BS, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, chutzpah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, cojones, courage, courageousness, crap, crock, crock of shit, daring, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, drivel, eyewash, fearlessness, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, Greek, grit, guff, gup, guts, heart, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, humbug, intrepidity, intrepidness, Irish bull, jabber, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, misinformation, mood, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, nertz, nerve, nonsense, ovaries, pecker, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, pluck, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, spunk, squit, steel, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trash, tripe, tush, twaddle, undauntedness, valour, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad
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