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cunt

/kʌnt/

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Northern England/kʊnt/

cunt noun: the female genitalia, especially the vulva.

Noun (1)

cunt (countable and uncountable, plural cunts)

  1. (countable, literally, vulgar) 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.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC
    • Ah! This power-house of human misery and ecstasy, the cunt!1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1138
    Synonyms:
    vagina and vulva
  2. (countable, offensive, vulgar) 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.1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 5
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, vulgar) An objectionable object or item.
    • Fix the car? I’ll sort the cunt out at the weekend.
  4. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, vulgar) 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.1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press
    • Certain situations just cry out for it – keys breaking in the lock, not being able to find the starting point in a roll of sticky-tape, running out of bin-bags. The kind of everyday annoyances that Alanis Morissette would define as irony are actually cunts as far as I’m concerned.2016 July 11, Rachel Braier, “In praise of the C-word”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2018
  5. (vulgar) 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.
    • "Like a bond you never wanted." She slid against him, grinding harder. "Or a cunt you crave but can't have."2024, Melissa K. Roehrich, Storm of Secrets and Sorrow, page 619
  6. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, positive, vulgar) 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!
  7. (vulgar, transgender slang) The anus of a trans woman.
  8. (plural-normally, vulgar, transgender slang) The inguinal canals of a trans woman.

Verb

cunt (third-person singular simple present cunts, present participle cunting, simple past and past participle cunted)

  1. (vulgar, generally vulgar) 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[...]2007, Robert Minhinnick, Sea Holly, Seren Books
    • Anyone whom he told to piss off was grateful not to have been cunted instead.2016 September 27, Peter Stothard, The Senecans: Four Men and Margaret Thatcher, Abrams, →ISBN
  2. (vulgar) To attack someone.
    • Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry was indeed described as "fascist", notably by Pauline Kael, although there is no real evidence that Scorsese's Taxi Driver was "cunted" on first release – on the contrary, despite continuing misgivings about violence, that film was surely widely praised from the very...2009 September 23, Peter Bradshaw, “The irony about Nick Love's Outlaw DVD commentary”, in The Guardian
    • “I wanted him to leave me alone,” Baby said. “I wasn't actually going to, you know.”
      “Cunt him?” Theo said. Baby flinched.2022 October 28, Gregory Ashe, A Fault against the Dead, Hodgkin and Blount, →ISBN
  3. (vulgar) 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.'2015 September 17, Charles Higson, King Of The Ants, Hachette UK, →ISBN
    • “If I'd said things in Russia were cunted, that would mean bad.”2018 July 10, Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country: A Novel, Penguin, →ISBN
  4. (vulgar) To betray someone.
    • JOE : You cunted me.
      ROBERT : Language . Not in here .
      JOE : You lied .2005, Darren Murphy, Tabloid Caligula, Oberon Books
    • You cunted us, and I'm gonna make you pay, cos you shit on us Pete.2010 April 3, Richard Perilly, Villains, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 189
  5. (vulgar) To take something into one's vulva or vagina.
    • How she cunts his finger as if it were a close friend1977, John Harris, Against the Day of the Dead
    • 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 merging1998, Evan Dara, The Lost Scrapbook, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 230

Adjective

cunt (not comparable)

  1. (vulgar, LGBTQ slang) 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.[2022, Lauron J. Kehrer, Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance, page 59
    • Look at her like how can you not say cunt[,] she's cunt2022 December 29, PeachyPlumz (on reddit), in "Symmetra is a ‘gay icon’?", Reddit

Noun (2) capitalized: CuNT

CuNT (plural CuNTs)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of copper nanotube.
    • As a comparison with earlier findings and the hybrid structures studied below, we first investigate the relaxation structures and the magnetic ground states of freestanding Fe [iron] and Co [cobalt] MACs [monatomic chains] as well as the structure parameters of pristine CuNT.2017 July 27, Liang-Cai Ma, Ling Ma, Jian-Min Zhang, “First-principles study of the stability, magnetic and electronic properties of Fe and Co monoatomic chains encapsulated into copper nanotube”, in...

Proper noun capitalized: Cunt

Cunt

  1. (uncommon) A surname.

cunt meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Pashto and Tagalog

cunt in Hindi

genitalia
चूत cūt
unpleasant or objectionable person
कमीना kamīnā, भोसड़ीका bhosṛīkā, भोसड़ीवाला bhosṛīvālā

cunt in Urdu

genitalia
چوت cūt

cunt in Pashto

genitalia
کس kos

cunt in Tagalog

genitalia
puke
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cunt in Arabic
كِس kis, كُس kus
cunt in Malay
puki
cunt in Indonesian
tempik, memek, meki, bajingan
cunt in Persian
کس kos, سوراخ کس surâx-e kos
cunt in Thai
หี hǐi, หอย hɔ̌i, โมะ mó, จิ๋ม jǐm
cunt in Vietnamese
lồn

Examples of cunt in a sentence

  • 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).1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 80:
  • "What better way to celebrate 10 years of Camberwell Arts Week than pulling 10 red handkerchiefs out of my cunt?" she asks.2004 June 23, Leo Benedictus, “A bit of hanky panky”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2023:
  • I saw the Virgin's cunt spawning forth the snake2014, “Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel”, performed by Behemoth:
  • Anne says that the only way she can rebel against her longsuffering hippie parents is by being a homeless, hatemongering, drug-addicted asshole cunt.2002, Jim Goad, Shit Magnet - One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt, page 196:

Synonyms of cunt

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Forms of cunt

Noun
pluralcunts
alternative formc**t
alternative formc*nt
pluralCuNTs
alternative form (euphemistic)c-word
alternative form (euphemistic)C-bomb
Verb
third-person singular presentcunts
present participlecunting
past participlecunted
pastcunted

Origin of 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”).

* (copper nanotube): Cu (“copper”) + NT (“nanotube”)

Words formed from cunt

Phrases with cunt

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Words that rhyme with cunt

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Questions about cunt

What does cunt mean?
Cunt means the female genitalia, especially the vulva.
What is cunt in Hindi?
Cunt in Hindi is चूत (cūt), कमीना (kamīnā), भोसड़ीका (bhosṛīkā). See Cunt meaning in Hindi.
How do you use cunt in a sentence?
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).
What part of speech is cunt?
Cunt can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cunt?
Cunt is pronounced /kʌnt/.
What is the plural of cunt?
The plural of cunt is cunts.

Words near cunt in the dictionary

  1. Cunos
  2. cuns
  3. Cunsolo
  4. Cunstitution
  5. Cunstitutional
  6. cunt
  7. cunt bucket
  8. cunt buckets
  9. cunt buster
  10. cunt busters
  11. cunt cap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cunt (page history and authors); CuNT (page history and authors); Cunt (page history and authors). 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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