blue-ball
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From blue balls.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
[edit]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.