cucking stool
cucking stool noun: a kind of chair to which a person (such as a scold or dishonest tradesman) was fastened in order to be punished and socially humiliated, usually by being pelted and hooted at by a mob in front of their own house, but sometimes being taken to water and ducked.
Noun
cucking stool (plural cucking stools)
- A kind of chair to which a person (such as a scold or dishonest tradesman) was fastened in order to be punished and socially humiliated, usually by being pelted and hooted at by a mob in front of their own house, but sometimes being taken to water and ducked.
- […] while in the same breath the Fleming exclaimed, “Beware the cucking-stool, Dame Scant o' Grace,” while he conducted the noble youth across the court.1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume I (The Betrothed), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co....
- Whenever officers resorted to corporal punishment of brewers, then, it seems that cucking-stools were sometimes reserved for brewsters (as well as for other female offenders). Yet if the cucking-stool was more a female punishment and the pillory (or other fates) more often reserved for men, the...1996, Judith M. Bennett, Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600, Oxford University Press, page 105
- Synonyms:
- castigatory, ducking stool, scolding stool, stool of repentance, trebuchet, tumbril
cucking stool meaning in Tamil
cucking stool in Tamil
- தண்டனைக்கான நாற்காலி
Synonyms of cucking stool
Forms of cucking stool
| plural | cucking stools |
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Origin of cucking stool
From about 1215. Origin uncertain. The variant ducking stool is a later (from 1597) corruption. The meaning of cuck here may be a long obsolete nursery word for feces, as reflected in Old English cac, defying sound changes as have words like Mama and Papa. The chair was once described as Latin cathedra stercoris; why, though, this punishment should have this name has not been convincingly explained.
Questions about cucking stool
- What does cucking stool mean?
- Cucking stool means a kind of chair to which a person (such as a scold or dishonest tradesman) was fastened in order to be punished and socially humiliated, usually by being pelted and hooted at by a mob in front of their own house, but sometimes being taken to water and ducked.
- What is cucking stool in Tamil?
- Cucking stool in Tamil is தண்டனைக்கான நாற்காலி. See Cucking stool meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cucking stool?
- Cucking stool is a noun.
- What is the plural of cucking stool?
- The plural of cucking stool is cucking stools.
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