Two nations divided by a common language.

[DickyP]

I thought Bollocks meant BS or Rubbish?...

Correct, but also a euphemism for testicles: In the sense you mean it usually said as 'a load of bollocks'.

 

[BlueSpruce]

Correct, but also a euphemism for testicles: In the sense you mean it usually said as 'a load of bollocks'.

Our slang for testicles is gonads, balls, nuts, ballocks, and cohones.

 

[BlueSpruce]

Actually, both of those are problems, but the one that is worse for me is the fats that render into oils that puddle on the cheese. With my gall bladder no longer a part of me, I am somewhat fat-sensitive. Pizza is one of those things I can no longer eat unless it gets blotted to remove the oil slicks. Fried chicken is another favorite that I can't have ... except, believe it or not, Popeye's Fried Chicken, because they use a different cooking oil that doesn't hit me so hard. Whatever KFC uses, or a southern USA chain called "Brother's", that also hits me badly. Fried seafood is another one I have to watch, depending on who makes it. I have found a couple of local seafood chains that drain their offerings pretty well. But in general, fried foods and pizza, two things I used to absolutely love, are no longer my friends.

I was diagnosed with pancreatic insufficiency, which means my pancreas is not producing digestive enzymes my body needs for breaking down fats. Being that it's an exocrine related issue, my GI Doc prescribed Creon 72K units with meals for digesting fats. Although I've never been diagnosed with diabetes, I'm dosing Mounjaro 12.5 MG once weekly and went from 250 lbs to 190 in one year.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I no longer have the article, but in one issue of Maledicta magazine, which specialized in bad words and phrases as well as bad euphemisms, there are 137 basic synonyms for passing gas from the nether sphincter. The magazine's publisher is out of business now, but I subscribed briefly - a few decades ago.

As is usual, you can find the old English/old German short word to correspond to the more intellectual-sounding Latin word. We still use a variant of the Latin word flatulentia for what comes out, or crepo for the action verb. Oddly enough, the Latin action verb survives in modern biology as a mechanism used by plants distributing seeds via a gas build-up in a seed pod followed by forceful expulsion of the seeds, shot-gun style; an act called crepitation when applied to people. The old English verb is feortan.