English

Etymology

Middle English cunte from common Germanic *kunton. Cognates include North Germanic kunta and West Germanic kunte, both with the same meaning.

Pronunciation

• kŭnt, /kʌnt/, /kVnt/

  Rhymes: -ʌnt

Noun

cunt (cunts )

1. (obscene) strongly crude term for female genitalia
2. (extremely offensive and extremely vulgar if used directly at someone; highly vulgar otherwise; see usage note below) A derogatory term for a female person
3. (extremely offensive and extremely vulgar if used directly at someone; highly vulgar otherwise; see usage note below) A derogatory term for a male person
4. (markedly vulgar) A term for a nonhuman object, expressing strong contempt for such object (Example: Damn! I tripped over that cunt [referring, in this example, to a piece of wood] lying in the hall!)
5. (markedly vulgar) Highly unpleasant or difficult experience or incidence: ~1. often followed by of a/an which in turn is followed by a noun which is the unambiguous source of such highly unpleasant or difficult experience or incidence (Examples: a. I had a cunt of a day. b. It was a cunt of an exam.) ~2. often followed by of a/an which is in turn followed by time, experience, occurrence, etc. (Examples: a. I had a cunt of a time getting it done. b. It was a cunt of an experience getting through it.)
6. (strongly vulgar) Female partner of, or female source of, sexual intercourse: term usually not used in presence of person it is referring to (if it were, term could also be considered offensive to varying degrees in many instances), and if an adjective precedes it, an article is not always required before that adjective: She was (a) good cunt.

Usage Note

• In definitions 2 & 3 above, if used by an adult, would generally only be used at, or (more likely) used to indirectly refer to, another adult; almost never would it be used directly by an adult to an adolescent (except, perhaps, to an adolescent not too far removed in age from the person using the word), and seldom would it be used to indirectly refer to an adolescent (with the same aforementioned exception); and would almost never be used directly at, or used to refer to, a pre-adolescent child, due to the word's taboo nature. (Such use at a child by an adult, indeed, could virtually be taken as a form of child abuse.) An adolescent bold enough to use the word may use it to indirectly refer to both adults and other adolescents; might use it directly to another adolescent; might use it indirectly to refer to an adult; would rarely be caught using it directly to an adult; and would generally not use it directly or indirectly at pre-adolescent children. Finally, rarely would a pre-adolescent child be found using this word at all, due to the fact that such children will generally be shielded from this word, and as such, this word won't generally be part of a pre-adolescent child's vocabulary.

Translations

• Albanian: (1): pidh m, piçkë f
• Czech: (1, 2, 6): píča f, kunda f
• French: (1): con m; (2): putain f, salope f; (3): salaud m, saligaud m
• Dutch: (1): kut f; (2): trut f, muts f; (3): lul m, eikel m
• Finnish: (1): vittu
• German: (1): Fotze
• Italian: (1): figa f, fica f; (2): stronza f; (3): stronzo m, bastardo m
• Japanese: (1): まんこ (manko)
• Latin: (1, 2): cunnus m
• Malaysian: (1): puki
• Norwegian: (1, 2): fitte
• Portuguese: conas
• Romanian: (1, 2,,4,5,6): pizdă f
• Russian (1): пизда
• Slovak: (1, 2): piča f
• Spanish: (1): coño
• Swedish: (1): fitta