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cunt

Pronunciation: /kʌnt/

The English word “cunt” has 14 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The female genitalia, especially the vulva.
  2. An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person (in US, especially a woman; in Commonwealth more usually a man).
  3. An objectionable object or item.
  4. An unpleasant or difficult experience or incident.
  5. A woman or any receptive sexual partner, as a source of potential or actual sexual gratification.
  6. A person (mostly between male friends); compare bastard.
  7. The anus of a trans woman.
  8. The inguinal canals of a trans woman.

verb

  1. To use the word "cunt".
  2. To attack someone.
  3. To ruin something; to fuck up.
  4. To betray someone.
  5. To take something into one's vulva or vagina.

adjective

  1. Amazing or very good.

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”).

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