One way to hold this word: an old, blunt name for a part of the female body, which English decided to treat as unspeakable. Once a word is unspeakable, it stops being a picture and becomes a weight. People reach for it when they want the heaviest thing in the language, so it turns into the strongest insult English has. And because it is that heavy, a community that had it thrown at them could pick it up and swing it the other way, as praise.

可以想成:一個很老、很直白的女性身體部位用字,被英文社會歸進「不能說出口」的那一類。一旦一個字變成不能說,它就不再是一幅畫面,而變成一塊重量。想罵到最重的時候,人就會去拿它,於是它成了英文裡最重的一句罵人話。也正因為它這麼重,長期被這個字攻擊的社群才有可能把它撿起來反過來用,變成一句稱讚。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary traces cunt to Middle English cunte, from Old English *cunte and Proto-West Germanic *kuntā, with cognates in West Frisian kunte, Middle Dutch conte, Icelandic kunta and dialectal Swedish and Danish. A link to Latin cunnus has not been shown conclusively. The body sense is the older one; the insult is tagged as originally synecdochic, that is, a part standing for a whole person.

Wiktionary 把這個字往回追到中古英文 cunte、古英文 *cunte,再到原始西日耳曼語 *kuntā;西弗里斯語 kunte、中古荷蘭文 conte、冰島文 kunta 都是同源字。它和拉丁文 cunnus 的關係沒有被確定。來源顯示身體的意思在前,罵人的意思是後來由「以部位代整個人」的方式長出來的,所以核心畫面從身體那邊起算。

Wiktionary, "cunt"

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原始詞典資料16 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。

Cuntname

  • 1

    A surname.

cuntnoun/kʌnt/

  • 1

    vulgarThe 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.
    • Ah! This power-house of human misery and ecstasy, the cunt!
  • 2

    vulgaroffensiveAn 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.
  • 3

    vulgarAn objectionable object or item.

    • Fix the car? I’ll sort the cunt out at the weekend.
  • 4

    vulgarAn 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.
    • 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.
  • 5

    vulgarA 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.
  • 6

    vulgarA 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

    vulgarThe anus of a trans woman.

  • 8

    vulgarThe inguinal canals of a trans woman.

cuntverb/kʌnt/

  • 1

    vulgarTo 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[...]
    • Anyone whom he told to piss off was grateful not to have been cunted instead.
  • 2

    vulgarTo 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 first, getting the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
    • “I wanted him to leave me alone,” Baby said. “I wasn't actually going to, you know.” “Cunt him?” Theo said. Baby flinched.
  • 3

    vulgarTo 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.'
    • “If I'd said things in Russia were cunted, that would mean bad.”
  • 4

    vulgarTo betray someone.

    • JOE : You cunted me. ROBERT : Language . Not in here . JOE : You lied .
    • You cunted us, and I'm gonna make you pay, cos you shit on us Pete.
  • 5

    vulgarTo take something into one's vulva or vagina.

    • How she cunts his finger as if it were a close friend
    • 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 merging

cuntadj/kʌnt/

  • 1

    vulgarAmazing 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.
    • Look at her like how can you not say cunt[,] she's cunt

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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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。