英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /jɑː(ɹ)blɒkəʊs/

語源

From Russian яблоко (jabloko, “apple”); coined by Anthony Burgess in 1962, when he introduced it within the invented slang Nadsat found in his dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange.

名詞

yarblockos pl (複数形 only)

1. (slang, mildly vulgar, augmentative, rare) Testicles; bollocks.
2. (slang, mildly vulgar, figuratively, uncountable, rare) Courage, fortitude, or machismo.

   Synonyms: (卑語) balls, (卑語) bollocks, (卑語) cojones, guts, nerve, chutzpah; see also Thesaurus:courage

   • 1993 December, Teitelbaum, Sheli, “Stallone Demolition Man”, in Cinefantastique, volume 24, number 5, Forest Park, Illinois: Algol Press, ISSN 0145-6032, page 16:

     The police, only barely adept at directing automated traffic, need an action hero to contain Snipes. But the only one around with yarblockos of sufficient mettle—Sly, of course, as former tough-guy cop Sgt. John Spartan—has himself been on ice for the last 25 or 30 years.

     Describing the plot of the 1993 film Demolition Man.