- 1「C字」（英語極髒話 cunt 的避諱講法，不直接出口）
When English speakers need to talk about a very rude word that starts with C, they often say "the C-word" instead of saying the word itself. The word they mean is a name for a woman's sex organ, also used as a hard insult toward a person. The trick is the same as "the F-word": the letter tells you which bad word they mean, without putting that word on the page or in the room. You will see it in newspapers, in school, and in careful talk, because the real word is one of the strongest swear words in English — in British English it is especially heavy, and many people will not say it at all. Though actually, some people now use the real word more loosely among friends; that does not make "the C-word" a polite thing to joke about in class. It is still a way of pointing at something most rooms do not want said out loud.
組成C is the first letter of the rude word; word is just "word". Same hiding pattern as the F-word.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
c-wordnoun
- 1
The word cunt, regarded as vulgar and a swear word.
- The c-word (cunt) is delivered here with a kind of despairing calm, as if the cuntishness of the British c-words (cunts) was just a sad matter of fact.
- 2
The word crap, often considered mildly vulgar.
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Less frequently, a word like cock or cock-sucker, camel-jockey, Chink, ching chong, or cracker, regarded as taboo or offensive.
- 4
Any word beginning with c that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context, like clitoris, condom, cancer, or communism.
- Nor can federal AIDS educators bring themselves to mention the c''' word, condom, a strange reticence not shared by any other Western government except that of Catholic Ireland. The CDC has gone through bizarre contortions to avoid naming the, uh, latex device.
- So, the term craft is now tainted. It’s association with weird beer imbibed by stuck up people is going to be hard one to shake. Anyone with that connection in their mind is instantly going to shut down when the c-word is mentioned.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。