Etymologies
- Borrowing from Spanish cojones, plural of cojón ("testicle"), from Vulgar Latin *coleonem, accusative of coleo ("testicle"), from cōleus ("sack, scrotum"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That experience has caused me to cringe when I hear the word cojones used in American movies or television as a reference to testicles when the writer is trying to have the character talk dirty.”
“The British judicial system scarcely has any 'cojones' -- after all, they let killers out in less than ten years and think that community service sentences are appropriate for career criminals.”
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
“SBU The use of the word "cojones" - not wide-spread in Britain as it is in the U.S.”
“I'm stuck in a country with a currency called cojones which sounds a lot like a dirty Spanish word that I think means "balls".”
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“The soft, pink toys are being sold for $24.95 each ($21.95 a piece if you buy them in bulk!) and play Palin's "cojones" comment when squeezed.”
The Huffington Post: Sarah's Talking 'Cojones': Palin Comment Gets Plush Toy Tribute (PHOTO)
“Jan Brewer's controversial immigration law and remarked that President Obama lacked the "cojones" to deal with illegal immigration.”
The Huffington Post: Sarah's Talking 'Cojones': Palin Comment Gets Plush Toy Tribute (PHOTO)
“FOX NEWS SUNDAY - Palin: Obama lacks 'cojones' to tackle immigration”
“* And the question of the day: Ruth Marcus, who's been doing nice work on Sarah Palin lately, asks: Why is the most visible female Republican in the country equating testacles, i. e, "cojones," with toughness?”
“Update: This may be the most high-profile political use of the word "cojones" by an American woman since then-U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright famously said in 1996 that Cuba's shooting down of planes flown by anti-Castro exiles was "not cojones" but "cowardice.”
The Washington Post: Palin: Obama lacks 'the cojones' to tackle immigration
“George Bush liked Tony Blair because he had "cojones".”
The Guardian: What woman could ever compete with Tony 'cojones' Blair?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cojones’.
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hunting
crudely, unequivocal, obsolete, obscure, overtly, misdeed, shack, inherent, outcry, hefty, composed, poised and 318 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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Logophile, The Back Page (AKA: just c...
node, nexus, locus, toroidal, ivory, kestrel, lyre, muscat, caldera, tapestry, codex, paragon and 103 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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grassdog's Words
schadenfreude, sanguine, nefarious, verisimilitude, antediluvian, salacious, obfuscate, plethora, cacophony, defenestration, vacillate, blasphemy and 478 more...
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
By David Foster Wallace
emeritus, apian, fenestration, prophylax, pelisse, niggardly, lallating, pica, simulacrum, floridly, acquiesced, truculent and 114 more...
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A Testicle by Any Other Name...
Please note these aren't all *strictly* testicle terms, but include other... uh... nearby parts.
Suggestions welcome.
Also, an interesting quote can be found here, and another on...stones, nuts, plums, sack, dingles, dangly-bits, ellipsoid glandul..., pinheads, junk, seeds, kernels, jewels and 77 more...
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Charlie
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carbuncle, chimaera, catamite, carphology, chancre, coprolalia, callipygian, concupiscence, coeval, codling, clitic, cojones and 39 more...
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yo
defenestrate, antipenultimate, emetophobe, emetophobia, clusterfuck, assclown, pamphlyer, distatch, arielism, scallop, regardless, unsung and 43 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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pickwick's Words
globule, context, glossolalia, squee, gerrymander, verbing, flagellate, leathery, sepulchral, squiggly, schwa, zyzygy and 40 more...
Tweets
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fbharjo I have been told there is a Mexican restaurant in Cincinnati, Ohio called C O Jones. I wonder if they serve 'rocky mountain' oysters. Apr 14, 2009