US English, 1910s,blue +balls(“testicles”).
blueballs pl (plural only)
- (slang) A cramp-like ache in thetesticles andprostate region caused by prolongedsexualarousal; testicles experiencing such an ache.
- (slang, figuratively) Unfulfilled sexual desire.
- (US, dated, slang)Buboes (in a person of anysex) caused by asexually transmitted infection; the infection that causes them.
1920,V.D. pamphlet[1], page33:[...] away the flesh and cause ulcers and buboes (blue balls).
1960, Laman Alexander Gray,A Text Book of Gynecology, page47:It invades lymphatics, is carried to the inguinal lymph nodes, where multiple abscesses, buboes, or "blue balls" appear. A brawny edema of the labia, with deeply penetrating destructive ulcers may occur in the late stages.
unspecified pain in the testicles and prostate region
unfulfilled sexual desire
