The phrases the dog’s bollocks, the bee’s bollocks, and golden bollocks are used to mean something or someone excellent, fine, or well thought of. But if one were to say a load of bollocks, or bullock’s bollocks, it would mean something not very good at all.
Does anyone know why bollocks has this opposite meaning according to the phrase it is used in?
Best Answer
As the other posters have stated these type of two-faced word usages are very common in vernacular speech.
Over the last few decades, more and more have crept in to the common tongue. Usually bringing a traditionally negative word in to a positive usage. Using a word as if it was its own antonym. Presumably it stems from the fact that what is bad often invites temptation and what is tempting must be desirable and what is desirable must be good...