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cum

/kʌm/

cum preposition: used in indicating a thing or person which has two or more roles, functions, or natures, or which has changed from one to another. Also the eye dialect spelling of come.

Preposition

cum

  1. Used in indicating a thing or person which has two or more roles, functions, or natures, or which has changed from one to another.
    • He is too good an actor to need that sort of tomfoolery: the effect will be far better if he is a credible mining camp elder-cum-publican.1926-1950, George Bernard Shaw, Collected Letters: 1926-1950, University of California/Viking, published 1985, page 31
    • One driver-cum-fireman-cum-fitter looks after the three locomotives, [...].1944 May and June, “Notes and News: The Snailbeach District Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 183

Noun

cum (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial, vulgar) Semen.
    • Jim descends into the murky tunnel; the faint odor of cum permeates the air.1977, John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw, New York: Dell, →ISBN, page 73
    • Licking a friend's cum off another friend's belly.1989 December 24, Read Weaver, “Queers For Years”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 24, page 9
  2. (colloquial, vulgar) Female ejaculatory discharge.
  3. (colloquial, vulgar) An ejaculation.

Verb

cum (third-person singular simple present cums, present participle cumming, simple past came or (nonstandard) cummed, past participle come or cum or (nonstandard) cummed)

  1. (colloquial, slang, vulgar) To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.
    • Despite claims to the contrary, a woman can cum from anal sex alone.
    Synonyms:
    climax
  2. (colloquial, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
    • Some men cum as much as 10 milliliters.
    • I got no sensation down there, so I don't know when I'm hard, I don't know when I cum. My wife's gotta tell me.1997 July 14, “Visits, Conjugal, and Otherwise”, in Oz, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau)

Proper noun capitalized: CUM

CUM

  1. (humorous, vulgar) Synonym of North American Union.

Also used as

cum is also the eye dialect spelling of come.

cum is also the abbreviation of cumulative.

cum is also the abbreviation of cubic metre.

cum meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Kannada

cum in Hindi

slang: semen
माल māl
slang: female ejaculatory discharge
रस ras
slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
झड़ना jhaṛnā

cum in Bengali

slang: semen
মাল mal
slang: have an orgasm; ejaculate
মাল ফেলা mal phela

cum in Telugu

కమ్

cum in Kannada

ಕಮ್
More languagesFewer languages
cum in Gujarati
ટુ કમ
cum in Tagalog
tamod
cum in Arabic
قَذْف الْمَنْي qaḏf al-many
cum in Malay
pancut
cum in Indonesian
peju, crot, keluar
cum in Thai
แตก dtɛ̀ɛk, น้ำแตก náam-dtɛ̀ɛk
cum in Vietnamese
kiêm, tinh dịch, xuất tinh

Examples of cum in a sentence

  • Sites such as this show the full power of the Internet as a propaganda medium cum travel service cum organizing tool.2001 Nov/Dec, David Sachs, “LET THEM EAT BITS”, in American Spectator, volume 34, number 8, page 78:
  • Coffee shops-cum-meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank).2023 February 5, Kathryn Parsons, “Boom times are back in San Francisco’s tech mecca”, in The Sunday Times, archived from the original on...
  • [Sam] Altman, the techno-optimist bent on commercialization, lost out to [Ilya] Sutskever, the Brutus cum mad scientist fearful that super-smart AI poses an existential risk to humanity.2023 November 22, Derek Thompson, “The OpenAI Mess Is About One Big Thing”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2023:
  • This week I learned that cum tastes like nickels.2014, Norm Macdonald Live, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Norm Macdonald:

Synonyms of cum

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All synonyms of cum

Forms of cum

third-person singular presentcums
present participlecumming
pastcame
past participlecome
past participlecum
past (nonstandard)cummed
past participle (nonstandard)cummed

Origin of cum

Learned borrowing from Latin cum.

Variant of come, attested (in the basic sense "come, move from further to nearer, arrive") since Old English. The sexual sense of come is attested since the 1650s. In this sense and spelling, attested from 1970s.

An acronym of Canada, United States, and Mexico; sequenced north to south and humorously made to spell out "cum."

Words formed from cum

Phrases with cum

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Words that rhyme with cum

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Questions about cum

What does cum mean?
Cum means used in indicating a thing or person which has two or more roles, functions, or natures, or which has changed from one to another.
What is cum in Hindi?
Cum in Hindi is माल (māl), रस (ras), झड़ना (jhaṛnā). See Cum meaning in Hindi.
How do you use cum in a sentence?
Sites such as this show the full power of the Internet as a propaganda medium cum travel service cum organizing tool.
What part of speech is cum?
Cum can be a preposition, a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cum?
Cum is pronounced /kʌm/.

Words near cum in the dictionary

  1. Culverwells
  2. culverwort
  3. culverworts
  4. Culwell
  5. Culworth
  6. cum
  7. cum catcher
  8. cum catchers
  9. cum corner
  10. cum corners
  11. cum cow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cum (page history and authors); CUM (page history and authors); cum (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cum (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cum (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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