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> serious cahunas I think you mean "cojones" (which btw is a very rude word in Spanish). A kahuna is a kind of Hawai'ian shaman.
by jordigh 9y ago
> serious cahunas
I think you mean "cojones" (which btw is a very rude word in Spanish). A kahuna is a kind of Hawai'ian shaman.
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- duncan_bayne 9y agoI'm sitting here chuckling to myself about the "why not both?" possibilities.
- jjgreen 9y agoI stand corrected, thank you. I would normally have said "serious bollocks", but this forum is mostly left-ponders who would probably not have caught my drift.
- liberte82 9y agoNorth American here, we hear enough Brits speak to get the expression :)
- Myrmornis 9y ago"serious bollocks" means "very questionable statement" in the British English I'm familiar with. Perhaps GP's idiom is from elsewhere. If the reference is to bravery/daring one would use "balls" as in US English, I believe.
- IronSean 9y ago"Bollocks" in Britain and "Balls" in North America both refer to the Testes, as does "cojones". So all three statements are actually the exact same slang in regional dialects. Bollocks, like many slang words, have multiple meanings in different contexts. It can be used as you stated as well, but "What you said is bollocks" and "You have bollocks for saying it" are very different statements.
- zimpenfish 9y agoIt's a common mistake - http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003526.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003526.h... - and you could imagine a big kahuna would have to have serious cojones.