cunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭnt
ipa: /kʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: cunts
form: cunting
form: cunted
form: cunted
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: [...] 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[...]
ref: 2007, Robert Minhinnick, Sea Holly, Seren Books:
text: Anyone whom he told to piss off was grateful not to have been cunted instead.
ref: 2016 September 27, Peter Stothard, The Senecans: Four Men and Margaret Thatcher, Abrams, →ISBN:
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.
ref: 2017 September 21, Chris Heath, quoting Robbie Williams, Reveal: Robbie Williams - As close as you can get to the man behind the Netflix Documentary, Bonnier Publishing Ltd., →ISBN:
qualifier: generally vulgar
glosses: To use the word "cunt".
examples: text: Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry was indeed described as "fascist", notably by Pauline Kael, although there is no real evidence that Scorsese's Taxi Driver was "cunted" on first release – on the contrary, despite continuing misgivings about violence, that film was surely widely praised from the very first, getting the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
ref: 2009 September 23, Peter Bradshaw, “The irony about Nick Love's Outlaw DVD commentary”, in The Guardian:
text: “I wanted him to leave me alone,” Baby said. “I wasn't actually going to, you know.”
“Cunt him?” Theo said. Baby flinched.
ref: 2022 October 28, Gregory Ashe, A Fault against the Dead, Hodgkin and Blount, →ISBN:
glosses: To attack someone.
examples: 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.'
ref: 2015 September 17, Charles Higson, King Of The Ants, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: “If I'd said things in Russia were cunted, that would mean bad.”
ref: 2018 July 10, Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country: A Novel, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: To ruin something; to fuck up.
examples: text: JOE : You cunted me.
ROBERT : Language . Not in here .
JOE : You lied .
ref: 2005, Darren Murphy, Tabloid Caligula, Oberon Books:
text: You cunted us, and I'm gonna make you pay, cos you shit on us Pete.
ref: 2010 April 3, Richard Perilly, Villains, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 189:
text: One of my favourite ever instances of its deployment was at a particularly troublesome roundabout, when a driver of my acquaintance uttered the deathless phrase: “Right: it’s cunt or be cunted.”
ref: 2017 February 4, Alex Clark, “I'm no pussy when it comes to swearing”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To betray someone.
examples: text: How she cunts his finger as if it were a close friend
ref: 1977, John Harris, Against the Day of the Dead:
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
ref: 1998, Evan Dara, The Lost Scrapbook, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 230:
glosses: To take something into one's vulva or vagina.