cunt – English noun declension

English noun forms of cunt

Noun: cunt
Singularcunt
Pluralcunts

Sample Sentences

  • 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:]
  • 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:]
  • I can smell your cunt. [1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Miggs (Stuart Rudin):]
  • Then there is a drum roll, and I watch open-mouthed as she bends over and produces a string of red cloths from her femininity. "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 snake [2014, “Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel”, performed by Behemoth:]
  • 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:]
  • 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:]
  • Vinokur pulled the trigger a second and third time. "You're lying, you Polish cunt!" he screamed. [2007, Elazar Barkan, Elizabeth A. Cole, Kai Struve, Shared History, Divided Memory, page 287:]
  • He rails against political correctness and health and safety regulations, and earlier this summer was accused of calling Gordon Brown "a cunt" in unbroadcast comments to his Top Gear audience, whom he has also referred to as "oafs". [2009 November 12, Patrick Barkham, “Top Gear: Why We're Mad About the Boys”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2020:]
  • "Back off cunt or you're getting a face full of death ray! I didn't tell him anything!" [2017 October 2, Dave Barrack, Grrl Power (webcomic), Grrl Power #567 – Zero sum shopping:]
  • One night – it was 2.30am – he dressed down a graduate, screaming in her face: “Are you stupid? Are you a fucking stupid cunt?” I had never seen anything like it in a workplace, or on TV, and I haven’t since. [2022 October 10, Jonathan Mahon-Heap, quoting Hugo, 29, former analyst, “‘One guy brandished a whip’ – bankers on Industry’s rampant sex, drugs and bullying culture”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2022:]
  • Fix the car? I’ll sort the cunt out at the weekend.
  • 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:]
  • I'm going to hit the clubs and see if I can get me some cunt.
  • 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!
  • —Happy New Year, ya wee cunt! Franco wrapped his arm around Stevie’s head. [1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 41:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn?
3. Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ
4. Proto-West Germanic *kuntā
5. Old English *cunte
6. Middle English cunte
7. English cunt
8. From Middle English cunte, queynt, queynte, from Old English *cunte, from Proto-West Germanic *kuntā, from Proto-Germanic *kuntǭ.
9. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns 'cunte', Old English Nouns '*cunte', Dutch Nouns 'kont', Swedish Nouns 'kunta', Icelandic Nouns 'kunta', Latin Nouns 'cunnus'.

Verbs referencing "cunt"

Icelandic Nouns kunta, Swedish Nouns kunta, Dutch Nouns kont, Italian Nouns potta.