bollix, v. low slang.
(ˈbɒlɪks)
Also bollux.
[Alt. of bollocks, pl. of bollock.]
trans. To bungle, make a mess of, confuse; also with up. So ˈbollixed ppl. a.
| 1937 J. Weidman I can get it for you Wholesale 36 Watch your script... You're getting your cues all bollixed up. 1945 A. J. Liebling in Best Amer. Short Stories (1946) 275 He explained that a ratfest was ‘a rat race, but all bollixed up’. 1945 A. Kober Parm Me 139 So rather I should tell it and maybe bollix up the whole thing, it's better that it should come from Billie. 1952 Steinbeck East of Eden I. 478 He'd made a mess of things. He wondered if he'd bollixed up the breaks. 1953 C. Armstrong Catch-As-Catch-Can xxii. 177 That skunk..bolluxed Pearl's radio. |
Also as n., a mess, confusion.
| 1935 Dylan Thomas Let. July (1966) 156 I've been meaning..to learn about..the bollix of the old gang. 1936 ‘G. Orwell’ Let. 3 Apr. (1968) I. 215 My novel..would have been out a month ago if it had not been for all that bollux about libel. 1957 J. Blish Fallen Star v. 62 Some kind of intra-departmental bollix. |