cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭnt
ipa: /kʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: cunts
form: c**t
form: c*nt
form: c-word
form: C-bomb
Etymology: From Middle English cunte, queynt, queynte, from Old English *cunte, from Proto-West Germanic *kuntā, from Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ. Cognate with West Frisian kunte, Middle Dutch conte (Dutch kont (“butt”)), dialectal Swedish kunta, dialectal Danish kunte, and Icelandic kunta. A relationship to Latin cunnus has not been conclusively shown. Lexicographer Partridge suggests cuneus (“a wedge”).
Senses: examples: text: An' doesn't ter know? Cunt! It's thee down theer; an' what I get when I'm i'side thee, and what tha gets when I'm i'side thee; it's a' as it is, all on't.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
text: Ah! This power-house of human misery and ecstasy, the cunt!
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1138:
text: Blind boys grope out of huge pies, deteriorated schizophrenics pop from a rubber cunt, boys with horrible skin diseases rise from a black pond (sluggish fish nibble yellow turds on the surface).
ref: 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 80:
text: I can smell your cunt.
ref: 1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Miggs (Stuart Rudin):
text: 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.
ref: 2004 June 23, Leo Benedictus, “A bit of hanky-panky”, in The Guardian:
text: I saw the Virgin's cunt spawning forth the snake
ref: 2014, “Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel”, performed by Behemoth:
glosses: The female genitalia, especially the vulva.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: bitch; see also Thesaurus:jerk
text: The taxi driver wisnae amused. He looked a right cunt. Maist ay them do. The stamp-peyin self-employed ur truly the lowest form ay vermin oan god’s earth.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Anne says that the only way she can rebel against her longsuffering hippie parents is by being a homeless, hatemongering, drug-addicted asshole cunt.
ref: 2002, Jim Goad, Shit Magnet - One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt, page 196:
text: Vinokur pulled the trigger a second and third time. "You're lying, you Polish cunt!" he screamed.
ref: 2007, Elazar Barkan, Elizabeth A. Cole, Kai Struve, Shared History, Divided Memory, page 287:
text: 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".
ref: 2009 November 12, Patrick Barkham, “Top Gear: Why We're Mad About the Boys”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in Commonwealth more usually a man).
examples: text: Fix the car? I’ll sort the cunt out at the weekend.
glosses: An objectionable object or item.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
text: 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.
ref: 2016 July 11, Rachel Braier, The Guardian:
glosses: An unpleasant or difficult experience or incident.
examples: text: I'm going to hit the clubs and see if I can get me some cunt.
glosses: A woman or any receptive sexual partner, as a source of potential or actual sexual gratification.
examples: text: Yes, I do remember Dave; he was one funny cunt.
text: Tom's a good cunt: he fixed my car and didn't even charge me for it!
text: —Happy New Year, ya wee cunt! Franco wrapped his arm around Stevie’s head.
ref: 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 41:
qualifier: good
glosses: A person (mostly between male friends); compare bastard.
raw_tags: with words funny
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: The anus of a trans woman.
qualifier: transgender slang
glosses: The inguinal canals of a trans woman.
Synonyms: sense: female genitalia
word: vagina and vulva
sense: unpleasant person
word: jerk and idiot
Derived terms: Africunt
Americunt
AmeriKKKunt
arsecunt
asscunt
bitchcunt
boy cunt
Connecticunt
cunny
Cunstitution
Cuntada
cuntal
cuntard
cuntass
cuntbag
cuntbiscuit
cuntbitch
cuntboy
cuntbrain
cuntbreath
cuntbucket
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cuntface
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cunt fart
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cunt hair
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cuntiness
cunting
Cuntingham
cuntish
cunt juice
cuntlapper
cuntless
cuntlessness
cuntlet
cuntlicker
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cuntline
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cuntlips
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cunt-punt
cuntrag
cuntribution
cuntry
cuntsack
cuntservative
cuntshit
cuntslut
cunt splice
cuntstain
cuntster
Cuntstitution
cunt-struck
cuntsucker
cuntwad
cuntwaffle
cuntward
cuntwardly
cuntweasel
cuntweed
cuntwhacker
cuntwhore
cuntwipe
cunty
cuntily
cuntzilla
decunt
Democunt
drunk as a cunt
dry as a nun's cunt
eat cunt → eating cunt
encunt
everycunt
femcunt
gunt
hunty
man cunt
Mexicunt
munt
pile of cunt
red cunt hair
Republicunt
serve cunt
shitcunt
slunt
supercunt
thundercunt
twunt
uncunt