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What does cojones mean?
I'm reading a review on fight club and was wondering what is a cojone?
Thank you
jova
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jova
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" Cheers, Harvey Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years; Southern England for the past 21 years. (for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs)
- " Cheers, Harvey Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years; Southern England for the past 21 years.
- (for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs)
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[nq:1]I'm reading a review on fight club and was wondering what is a cojone?[/nq]
I thought it meant testicles, as in "That guy's got *****..."
Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 21 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs)
I thought it meant testicles, as in "That guy's got *****..."
Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 21 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey to whhvs)
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[nq:1]I'm reading a review on fight club and was wondering what is a cojone?[/nq]
A ********. Cojones are *****
John Dean
Oxford
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A ********. Cojones are *****
John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:1]On 03 Dec 2003, Jova wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]I'm reading a review on fight club and was wondering what is a cojone?[/nq]
[nq:1]I thought it meant testicles, as in "That guy's got *****..."[/nq]
Don't stop thinking that.
It is, of course, slang in the Spanish from which it came, just as is "*****" in English. I've never seen it used in the singular, and only rarely with the literal m
[nq:2]I'm reading a review on fight club and was wondering what is a cojone?[/nq]
[nq:1]I thought it meant testicles, as in "That guy's got *****..."[/nq]
Don't stop thinking that.
It is, of course, slang in the Spanish from which it came, just as is "*****" in English. I've never seen it used in the singular, and only rarely with the literal m
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[nq:1]I'm reading a review on fight club and was wondering what is a cojone?[/nq]
(Excepts from Gran Diccionario Oxford)
cojones (mpl)
A (vulg) (testiculos) ***** (pl) (sl or vulg)
'estar hasta los cojones' (vulg) to be *** off (sl) 'hincharle los cojones a algn' (vulg) to *** sb off, to get up sb's nose (BrE colloq)
'salirle a algn de los cojones' (vulg)
'yo digo lo que me
(Excepts from Gran Diccionario Oxford)
cojones (mpl)
A (vulg) (testiculos) ***** (pl) (sl or vulg)
'estar hasta los cojones' (vulg) to be *** off (sl) 'hincharle los cojones a algn' (vulg) to *** sb off, to get up sb's nose (BrE colloq)
'salirle a algn de los cojones' (vulg)
'yo digo lo que me
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[nq:1]It is, of course, slang in the Spanish from which it came, just as is "*****" in English. I've never seen it used in the singular, and only rarely with the literal meaning "testicles" as opposed to its metaphorical extension of "nerve" or "chutzpah."[/nq]
Just the other day I learned (on the heraldry newsgroup, of all places) that the English cognate is "cullions".
Odysseus
Just the other day I learned (on the heraldry newsgroup, of all places) that the English cognate is "cullions".
Odysseus
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[nq:1]On 03 Dec 2003, Jova wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]I'm reading a review on fight club and was wondering what is a cojone?[/nq]
[nq:1]I thought it meant testicles, as in "That guy's got *****..."[/nq]
It's kahones.
[nq:2]I'm reading a review on fight club and was wondering what is a cojone?[/nq]
[nq:1]I thought it meant testicles, as in "That guy's got *****..."[/nq]
It's kahones.
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[nq:2]On 03 Dec 2003, Jova wrote I thought it meant testicles, as in "That guy's got *****..."[/nq]
[nq:1]It's kahones.[/nq]
Maybe. I mostly see it written as the Spanish "cojones," pronounced coh HONE ez.
Or are you thinking of "kahuna" from Hawaii?
[nq:1]It's kahones.[/nq]
Maybe. I mostly see it written as the Spanish "cojones," pronounced coh HONE ez.
Or are you thinking of "kahuna" from Hawaii?
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