From en.wiktionary.org:
[Cunt]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [en]. Cognate with [fy],
[dum] ([nl]), dialectal [sv], dialectal [da], and [is]. A relationship to
[la] has not been conclusively shown. Lexicographer [Eric Partridge] suggests
[la].
*** Pronunciation
- [kŭnt] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. [en] The female genitalia , especially the vulva .
2. * [chapter=12]
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1983 | author=w:Lawrence Durrell | title=Sebastian | publisher=Faber & Faber | year_published=2004 | series=Avignon Quintet | page=1138
|passage=Ah! This power-house of human misery and ecstasy, the CUNT!}}
1. * [page=80]
2. * [en]
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=23 Jun 2004 | author=Leo Benedictus | title=A bit of hanky-panky | journal=The Guardian
|passage=Then there is a drum roll, and I watch open-mouthed as she bends over
and produces a string of red cloths from her femininity. "What better way to
celebrate 10 years of Camberwell Arts Week than pulling 10 red handkerchiefs
out of my CUNT?" she asks.}}
1. * {{ quote-song | en | year=2014 | artist=Behemoth | title=w:Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel
|passage=I saw the Virgin's CUNT spawning forth the snake}}
1. {{ lb | en | vulgar | offensive | originally | synecdochically
|countable}} An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US,
especially a woman; in Commonwealth more usually a man).
1. * [page=5]
2. * [en]
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2007 | author=Elazar Barkan; Elizabeth A. Cole; Kai Struve | title=Shared History, Divided Memory | page=287
|passage=Vinokur pulled the trigger a second and third time. "You're lying,
you Polish CUNT!" he screamed.}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=12 Nov 2009 | author=Patrick Barkham | title=Top Gear: Why We're Mad About the Boys | journal=The Guardian
|passage=He rails against political correctness and health and safety
regulations, and earlier this summer was accused of calling Gordon Brown "a
CUNT" in unbroadcast comments to his Top Gear audience, whom he has also
referred to as "oafs".}}
1. [en] An objectionable object or item.
2. [en] An unpleasant or difficult experience or incident.
3. * [passage=The lines were up past the frozen food now; people had to cut through to get what they wanted and there was much excuse-me-ing and pardon-me-ing. “This is going to be a CUNT ,” Norton said morosely, and I frowned a little.]
4. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=11 July 2016 | author=Rachel Braier | journal=The Guardian
|passage=Certain situations just cry out for it – keys breaking in the lock,
not being able to find the starting point in a roll of sticky-tape, running
out of bin-bags. The kind of everyday annoyances that Alanis Morissette would
define as irony are actually CUNTS as far as I’m concerned.}}
1. [en] A woman or any receptive sexual partner, as a source of potential or actual sexual gratification.
2. [en] A person (mostly between male friends); compare bastard .
3. * [page=41]
4. [en] The anus of a trans woman .
5. [en] The inguinal canal s of a trans woman .
**** Usage notes
- Writing in 1961, Partridge notes the term had been avoided "in written and polite spoken English" since the 15th century and had been considered obscene since around 1700. Partridge further notes the term's absence from the 1932 _Universal Dictionary of English_ and the 1933 _Shorter Oxford Dictionary_ , and he himself bowdlerize s it as _c*nt_ .
- In many English-speaking countries, "cunt" is considered to be the most offensive swear word : a study by several British broadcasting organizations found that it was the most offensive swear word, with 96% classing it as severe; [1] a similar study by New Zealand's [Broadcasting Standards Authority] found that it was the most offensive word there, offending 74% of New Zealanders. [2]
- In the US, where _cunt_ is most often used as an insult towards women, the word is also likely to be taken as a misogynistic slur and its use can cause controversy even in contexts where vulgar language is otherwise acceptable. In the US in the 21st century the n-word and the c-word are widely ranked as the most offensive words in the language. In Commonwealth countries, the word – although still considered offensive – is not generally interpreted as misogynistic or indicating specific hatred towards women. [3]
**** Quotations
- [en]
**** Synonyms
- [female genitalia] _See_ Thesaurus:vagina _and_ vulva
- [unpleasant person] _See_ Thesaurus:jerk _and_ idiot
**** Derived terms
{{col4|en
|decunt|Africunt|AmeriKKKunt|arsecunt|cunny|Cunstitution|cuntwipe|Democunt|everycunt|femcunt|gunt|hunty|Mexicunt|munt|slunt|twunt|cuntribution
|encunt|serve cunt |supercunt |cuntrag |uncunt |cuntal |cuntdom |cunted
|cuntery |cuntful|pile of cunt |cunthood |cuntify |cuntiness |cunting |cuntish
|cuntless,cuntlessness |cuntlet |cuntlike |cuntling |cuntly
|cuntward,cuntwardly |cunty,cuntily |cuntzilla |Americunt |Connecticunt
|Cuntada |cuntinent |Cuntingham |cuntry |cuntservative |Cuntstitution
|Republicunt |cuntass |cunt buster |cunt cap |cunt dropping |cunt fart |cunt
hair |cunt hunt |cunt juice |cunt muncher |cunt splice |cuntbag |cuntbitch
|cuntboy |cuntbrain |cuntbreath |cuntbucket |cuntface,cuntfaced |cuntfest
|cuntfuck,cuntfucker |cunthead |cunthole |cuntlapper |cuntlicker,cuntlicking
|cuntline |cuntlips,cunt lips |cuntmunch |cunt-punt |cuntshit |cuntslut
|cunt-struck |cuntsucker |cuntwhore |asscunt |bitchcunt |boy cunt |drunk as a
cunt |dry as a nun's cunt |eat cunt → eating cunt |man cunt |red cunt hair
|shitcunt |thundercunt |cuntard |cuntbiscuit |cuntwhacker |cuntstain
|cuntmuffin |cuntwaffle |cuntweasel |cuntmitten |cuntweed |cuntwad |cuntster
|cuntsack |cunt munch |cuntmuncher |cuntfag |cuntfer}}
**** Translations
[genitalia]
- Afrikaans: [af] , [af] , [af]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Betawi: [bew]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Bulgarian: [bg] < !-- [bg] , [bg] , [bg] -->, [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Corsican: [co]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et] , [et]
- Faroese: [fo] , [fo] , [fo] , [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Hebrew: [he] [vulgar]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv] , [jv] , [jv] , [jv] , [jv]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Middle English: [enm] , [enm] , [enm] , [enm] , [enm] , [enm] , [enm] , [enm]
- Mongolian:
- Neapolitan: [nap] , [nap] , [nap]
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Norwegian:
- Papiamentu: [pap] , [pap] , [pap]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] [Brazil] , [pt] [Portugal]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tatar: [tt] , [tt]
- Thai: [th] , [th] , [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Udmurt: [udm]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Wolof: [wo]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi]
[trans-bottom]
[unpleasant or objectionable person]
- Afrikaans: [af] , [af] , [af]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da] [female only] , [da] [female only]
- Dutch: [nl] [females only] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] [ass] , [de] [asshole]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id]
- Italian: [it] [it] , [it]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt] [Portugal] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Seraiki: [skr]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Welsh: [cy]
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- Latin: (2): [la]
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*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To use the word "cunt".
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2007 | author=Robert Minhinnick | title=Sea Holly | publisher=Seren Books
|text=[...] and boy I can hear every word from behind my tree because that
plot of hers is close to the road and she's fucking it and she's CUNTING it
and you never heard a woman talking like that, not sober anyway[...]}}
1. * [en]
2. * {{ quote-book | en | date=2017-09-21 | author=Chris Heath | title=Reveal: Robbie Williams - As close as you can get to the man behind the Netflix Documentary | publisher=Bonnier Publishing Ltd. | quotee= 吴语: Robbie Williams | isbn=9781911600268
|text=I wanted to provoke something in him so that he would hit me first, so I
went over and CUNTED him off left , right and centre . He was a Scouser - I
called him a Scouse cunt.}}
1. [en] To attack someone.
2. * [en]
3. * {{ quote-book | en | date=2022-10-28 | author=Gregory Ashe | title=A Fault against the Dead | publisher=Hodgkin and Blount | isbn=9781636210407
|text=“I wanted him to leave me alone,” Baby said. “I wasn't actually going
to, you know.”</br>“ CUNT him?” Theo said. Baby flinched.}}
1. [en] To ruin something; to fuck up .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | date=2015-09-17 | author=Charles Higson | title=King Of The Ants | publisher=Hachette UK | isbn=9780349139821
|text=... 'We were going to. Duke gave you the ticket, it was all set. And
then you CUNTED the whole plan, didn't you? You killed the bastard.'}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | date=2018-07-10 | author=Keith Gessen | title=A Terrible Country: A Novel | publisher=Penguin | isbn=9780735221321
|text=“If I'd said things in Russia were CUNTED, that would mean bad.” }}
1. [en] To betray someone.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2005 | author=Darren Murphy | title=Tabloid Caligula | publisher=Oberon Books
|text=JOE : You CUNTED me.<br/>ROBERT : Language . Not in here .<br/>JOE :
You lied .}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | date=2010-04-03 | author=Richard Perilly | title=Villains | publisher=Lulu.com | isbn=9781445716978 | page=189
|text=You CUNTED us, and I'm gonna make you pay, cos you shit on us Pete.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] To take something into one's vulva or vagina.
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1977 | author=John Harris | title=Against the Day of the Dead
|text=How she CUNTS his finger as if it were a close friend}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1998 | author=Evan Dara | title=The Lost Scrapbook | publisher=University of Alabama Press | isbn=9781573660389 | page=230
|text=I am pushing towards him, against him, yearning to open up against his
entire face, to CUNT him entirely, to feel the full warm liquid merging}}
*** Adjective
[-]
1. [en] Amazing or very good.
2. * [1=en]
3. * 2022 December 29, PeachyPlumz (on reddit), in " Symmetra is a ‘gay icon’? (see https://www.reddit.com/r/SymmetraMains/comments/zyfrqx/symmetra_is_a_gay_icon/) ", _Reddit_ :
4. *: Look at her like how can you not say CUNT [ , ] she's CUNT
5. * 2023 May 24, cutehammie (on reddit), in "Trans ally Azealia", r/popheadscirclejerk, _Reddit_ :
6. *: she's so CUNT ... like... how can i not say cunt???
*** References
- [year=1961]
- [page=96]
References:
[1]. [url=http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/itc/uploads/Delete_Expletives.pdf ]
[2]. What Not to Swear (see http://bsa.govt.nz/images/assets/Research/What-Not-to-Swear-Full-BSA2010.pdf)
[3]. [url=https://newrepublic.com/article/148713/whats-bad-c-word]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en] [en]
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
** Old Dutch
*** Etymology
From [odt].
*** Adjective
[odt]
1. known , familiar
**** Inflection
[cund]
**** Derived terms
- [odt]
**** Descendants
- [dum]
- [nl]
**** Further reading
- [2753]