cunt

noun
/kʌnt/

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”).

  1. inherited from *kuntǭ
  2. inherited from *kuntā
  3. inherited from *cunte
  4. inherited from cunte

Definitions

  1. The female genitalia, especially the vulva.

    • 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.
    • Ah! This power-house of human misery and ecstasy, the cunt!
    • 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).
  2. An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman

    An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in Commonwealth more usually a man).

    • Near-synonyms: bitch; see also Thesaurus:jerk
    • 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.
    • Anne says that the only way she can rebel against her longsuffering hippie parents is by being a homeless, hatemongering, drug-addicted asshole cunt.
  3. An objectionable object or item.

    • Fix the car? I’ll sort the cunt out at the weekend.
  4. + 13 more definitions
    1. An unpleasant or difficult experience or incident.

      • 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.
    2. A woman or any receptive sexual partner, as a source of potential or actual sexual…

      A woman or any receptive sexual partner, as a source of potential or actual sexual gratification.

      • I'm going to hit the clubs and see if I can get me some cunt.
    3. A person (mostly between male friends)

      A person (mostly between male friends); compare bastard.

      • Yes, I do remember Dave; he was one funny cunt.
      • Tom's a good cunt: he fixed my car and didn't even charge me for it!
      • —Happy New Year, ya wee cunt! Franco wrapped his arm around Stevie’s head.
    4. The anus of a trans woman.

    5. The inguinal canals of a trans woman.

    6. To use the word "cunt".

      • [...] 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[...]
      • Anyone whom he told to piss off was grateful not to have been cunted instead.
      • 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.
    7. To attack someone.

      • “I wanted him to leave me alone,” Baby said. “I wasn't actually going to, you know.” “Cunt him?” Theo said. Baby flinched.
    8. To ruin something

      To ruin something; to fuck up.

      • ... '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.'
      • “If I'd said things in Russia were cunted, that would mean bad.”
    9. To betray someone.

      • JOE : You cunted me. ROBERT : Language . Not in here . JOE : You lied .
      • You cunted us, and I'm gonna make you pay, cos you shit on us Pete.
      • 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.”
    10. To take something into one's vulva or vagina.

      • How she cunts his finger as if it were a close friend
      • 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
    11. Amazing or very good.

      • As noted above, "cunt" or "cunty" has evolved in Ballroom parlance to mean exactly what Banks defines it as: feminine and strong.
      • Look at her like how can you not say cunt[,] she's cunt
      • she's so CUNT ... like... how can i not say cunt???
    12. Abbreviation of copper nanotube.

    13. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cunt. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA