different between goolies vs doolies

English

Etymology

Probably from Hindi ???? (gol?, “ball; pill; bullet”) or a cognate in other Indian languages.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?liz/

Noun

goolies pl (normally plural, singular gooly)

1. (Britain, vulgar slang, usually in the plural) The testicles.

   Synonyms: balls, nuts

   • 2013 April 8, "The Herpes Cat", Plebs:

     Marcus: Sorry, your "gooly"?
     Stylax: Yeah.
     Marcus: You can't have one "gooly". It's just your "goolies".
     Stylax: No, no, no, no. The whole thing is your goolies, all three of them, but if you're talking about one in particular, you say "gooly".

   He was getting on my nerves so I decided to kick him in the goolies. That shut him up.

2. (Australia and New Zealand, slang) plural of gooly: pebbles, small rocks.

Synonyms

• (testicles): See Thesaurus:testicles & Thesaurus:male genitalia

References

• “gooly, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1972

Anagrams

• loogies, ologies

English

Noun

doolies

1. plural of doolie
2. plural of dooly