Serbo-Croatian

Noun

jáje n ‎(Cyrillic spelling ја́је)

1. egg

   pržena jaja‎ ― fried eggs

   jaje na oko‎ ― sunny-side up egg

   u Čečeniji su pronašli jaja dinosaura stara 60 000 000 godina‎ ― they found dinosaur eggs in Chechnya that are 60 000 000 years old

2. (mildly vulgar, colloquial, chiefly in the plural) ball, testicle

   frajeru, ček, obrijao si jaja?‎ ― dude, wait, you shaved your balls?

   gospođo, upoznajte čelična jaja‎ ― madam, meet balls of steel

   kučka me udarila u jaja!‎ ― the bitch kicked me in the nuts!

3. idiomatic and figurative meanings

   tražiti dlaku u jajetu‎ ― to look for meaningless details

   (biti sličan) kao jaje jajetu‎ ― as two peas in a pod

   hladiti jaja‎ ― to rest and enjoy (as opposed to be working hard)

   držati nekoga za jaja‎ ― to have somebody by the balls

   do jaja‎ ― (as an adjective) awesome; (as an adverb) awesomely; completely, to the full

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