  cunt  is slang for female genitalia and is a term of abuse for females and males. it is widely considered to be vulgar. the earliest known use of the word, according to the oxford english dictionary, was as a placename for the london street gropecunt lane, c&nbsp;1230. scholar germaine greer said in 2006 that cunt "is one of the few remaining words in the english language with a genuine power to shock." use of the word as a term of abuse is relatively recent, dating from the late nineteenth century. reflecting different national usages, cunt is described as "an unpleasant or stupid person" in the compact oxford english dictionary, whereas merriam-webster has a usage of the term as "usually disparaging and obscene: woman", noting that it is used in the u.s. as "an offensive way to refer to a woman"; and the macquarie dictionary of australian english gives "a contemptible person." when used with a positive qualifier (good, funny, clever, etc.) in britain, new zealand, and australia, it can convey a positive sense of the object or person referred to.for example, glue by irvine welsh, p.266, "billy can be a funny cunt, a great guy..." the word appears to have not been strongly taboo in the middle ages, but became taboo towards the end of the eighteenth century, and was then 
Mammal_female_reproductive_system Pejorative_terms_for_people Profanity Sexual_slang Sexuality_and_gender-related_slurs Slang_terms_for_men Slang_terms_for_women