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гонево

English translation: bollocks (UK) bullshit (US)

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Russian term or phrase:гонево
English translation:bollocks (UK) bullshit (US)
Entered by: Mikhail Kriviniouk

10:46 Oct 28, 2004
Russian to English translations [PRO]
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Russian term or phrase: гонево
гонево
Galochka
Local time: 15:09
bollocks
Explanation:
the meaning of course is "a bunch of lies", a load of rubbish. Bollocks can be used in British English for "rubbish"

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Note added at 17 mins (2004-10-28 11:04:23 GMT)
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\"Balls\" is also possible

I would use these rather than bullshit as the term гонево is rather tough in Russian and bullshit is not necessarily so in English, but hell, bullshit is fine.

Load of codswallop - Jack Doughty in some previous question (thanks Jack)
Load of rubbish
Bunch of crap
Load of shit
flipping lies
blooming crap

flipping-blooming-f**king-bloody whatever
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Mikhail Kriviniouk
Local time: 13:09
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3bollocks
Mikhail Kriviniouk
4 +3bullshit
Dmytro Voskolovych


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
гонево
bullshit


Explanation:
that's it

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Note added at 7 mins (2004-10-28 10:54:19 GMT)
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hold on here it comes
\"distilled crap\"! :-))) And that is a used one check it out:

FYI: How to get Euro 2004 on the internet - TranceAddict - A Site ...
... in the US. The CBC also had live Olympics coverage, rather than *distilled
crap* that NBC was giving us at the time. But I gave up ...
www2.tranceaddict.com/ forums/archive/topic/187516-1.html

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Note added at 8 mins (2004-10-28 10:55:29 GMT)
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my last note is just a knock-out! sorry for that anyway :-)

Dmytro Voskolovych
Local time: 15:09
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Konstantin Kisin: US version
9 mins
  -> yes, the US
agree  Mikhail Kriviniouk: distilled crap - very nice :-))
9 mins
  -> well, that was a kind of cold shower for me :-))))
agree  Mikhail Kropotov: baloney, malarkey, hogwash, whopper... ad infinitum
1 hr
  -> :-) wow! thanks man!
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
гонево
bollocks


Explanation:
the meaning of course is "a bunch of lies", a load of rubbish. Bollocks can be used in British English for "rubbish"

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Note added at 17 mins (2004-10-28 11:04:23 GMT)
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\"Balls\" is also possible

I would use these rather than bullshit as the term гонево is rather tough in Russian and bullshit is not necessarily so in English, but hell, bullshit is fine.

Load of codswallop - Jack Doughty in some previous question (thanks Jack)
Load of rubbish
Bunch of crap
Load of shit
flipping lies
blooming crap

flipping-blooming-f**king-bloody whatever

Mikhail Kriviniouk
Local time: 13:09
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 19

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jack Doughty: I wonder if it's from the same root as "gonads", which is a much more polite term for bollocks.
5 mins
  -> :-)))) Oh balls!
agree  Konstantin Kisin: UK version
8 mins
  -> ta man :-)
agree  Kurt Porter: Or the not so polite, "that's a load of crap."
10 mins
  -> gonads! :-)
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