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Cullion

//ˈkʌl.jən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of testicle. obsolete, plural-normally

    "[…] the kings enimies were vanquished, and put to flight, in which flight, the earle of Dowglas, for hast, falling from the crag of an hie mounteine, brake one of his cullions, and was taken, and for his valiantnesse, of the king frankelie and freelie deliuered."

  2. 2
    Synonym of asshole or bollocks, a mean, vile, or otherwise contemptible person. archaic, offensive

    "Mistake no more; I am not Licio. Nor a musician as I seem to be; But one that scorn to live in this disguise For such a one as leaves a gentleman And makes a god of such a cullion."

Etymology

From Middle English coilon, borrowed from Old French coillon (“testicle, vile fellow, coward, dupe”), from Vulgar Latin *cōleōnem, from Latin cōleus (“sack, scrotum”). Doublet of culeus and cojones.

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