different between bullocks vs bullocky

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

see bullock

Noun

bullocks

1. plural of bullock

Etymology 2

Alteration of bollocks

Noun

bullocks pl (plural only)

1. (slang, euphemistic) Testicles.

Interjection

bullocks

1. (slang, euphemistic) Expression of frustration.

English

Etymology

From bullock +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?l?ki/

Noun

bullocky (plural bullockies)

1. (Australia and New Zealand colloquial, now historical) A person (usually a man) who drives a cart pulled by a team of bullocks.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 21:

     He could yarn with the bullockies for hours.

   • 2006, Jaydeep Sarangi, Binod Mishra, Explorations In Australian Literature, page 107,

     In so doing, the bullocky assumes a larger than life dimension and passes into the realm of myth and Australian legend.

     The bullocky in Australia has vanished into the past and old methods have given way to new - ‘grass is across the waggon-tracks and plough strikes bone beneath the grass’.