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English
Etymology
From blue balls.
Pronunciation
Verb
blue-ball (third-person singular simple present blue-balls, present participle blue-balling, simple past and past participle blue-balled)
- (slang, vulgar, transitive) To leave (a person, usually a man) sexually frustrated by denying them an orgasm or abruptly ending sexual contact.
2009, Kate Brian, Paradise Lost, Simon & Schuster UK, →ISBN, unnumbered page:“Stop blue-balling the guy and give in already.”
- 2010, Doctor Lover, Dr. Lover, Mr. Lies: Cheating 101, E. C. Publishing (2010), unnumbered page:
- I'm not even upset; I'm just tired of being blue-balled and tired of being rejected. It's just sad to see that I have to argue about having sex with my wife.
2012, Zoe Fishman, Saving Ruth, William Morrow, →ISBN, unnumbered page:I thought it would be a good way to go out—to blue-ball him into submission and then leave, the way all of the cool girls did in the movies.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:blue-ball.
- (by extension, idiomatic, transitive) To lead someone on or tease them with the promise of something desirable without actually delivering it, causing them to feel frustrated and unsatisfied.
- Synonyms: tease, lead on, tantalize
Stop blue-balling me and tell me what happened!
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