bollocks
n.n. a British slang term for testicles, or used to describe something pointless or foolish. You might hear it in informal speech to express frustration or dismissiveness.
n. a vulgar British slang term for testicles; also used informally to mean nonsense or foolishness. Uncountable, informal, vulgar.
He called the plan complete bollocks.
After the failed experiment, the team agreed the entire approach was just bollocks.
The author's use of bollocks as a metaphor for societal decay adds a layer of dark humor to the narrative.
From Old English beallucas (nominative plural of bealluc), via Middle English ballokes (plural of ballok), the term bollocks emerges by surface analysis as bollock + -s. The comparison to cullion suggests a shared etymological lineage in the realm of vulgar slang.
No named entities or dates are recorded in the source, though the term's survival into modern English attests to its resilience as a lexical curiosity.