bill kilpatrick wrote: > i thought the english expletive "bollocks!" was > associated with the hindmost part of the human anatomy > and hot air (i.e. "you're talking bollocks - speaking > from your rear-end"). was the knife normally carried > from behind?
Actually it originally refers to a more frontal part of the anatomy - the testicles (in American slang "balls"). If you look at pictures of extant medieval bollock daggers you will find taht their shape made the reference very explicit, as well as where the dagger was hung. (Some modern replicas may be seen at http://www.todsstuff.co.uk/html/bollockdaggers.php ) -- Stephen Fryer Lund Computer Services ************************************************** The more answers I find, the more questions I have ************************************************** To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
