cunt
/kʌnt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.87 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in Commonwealth more usually a man).
Countable; Offensive
noun
A woman or any receptive sexual partner, as a source of potential or actual sexual gratification.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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)."
- "I can smell your cunt."
- "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."
- "I saw the Virgin's cunt spawning forth the snake"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn? Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ Proto-West Germanic *kuntā Old English *cunte Middle English cunte English cunt 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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: cunte, *cunte, *kuntā, *kuntǭ
Usage
- Countable
- Offensive
- British usage
- Uncountable
Inflected Forms
cunts (plural)
c**t (alternative)
c*nt (alternative)
c-word (alternative, euphemistic)
C-bomb (alternative, euphemistic)
cunts (present, singular)
cunting (participle, present)
cunted (participle, past)
cunted (past)
Derived Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
CNT
CuNW