cuck

== English == === Pronunciation === enPR: kŭk, IPA(key): /kʌk/ (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /kʊk/ Homophone: cook (most accents without the foot-strut split) Rhymes: -ʌk === Etymology 1 === Clipping of cuckold or cuckquean. The sense of weakling, race traitor, etc. apparently originated on 4chan in 2014 and migrated to Reddit soon after. ==== Noun ==== cuck (plural cucks) (slang) A cuckold or cuckquean. (derogatory, slang) A weakling. 2016, Kumail Nanjiani, quoted in The Guardian, 12 November: “He starts getting in my face. Thomas puts his hand on the dude’s chest to stop him. ‘Don’t touch me you cuck. Wanna go outside?’” 2020, "TDO" quoted by Vinny Troia in Hunting Cyber Criminals[2]: You're[sic] site is SHITE. It gets hacked DAILY. You dumb cuck. (derogatory, slang) One who meekly and submissively acts against their own interests, or those of their own race, gender, class, religion, etc. ===== Usage notes ===== As a derogatory term, in particular in political contexts and in the meanings “weakling” and “person meekly acting against their own interests”, the noun cuck and its derived terms are strongly associated with populist conservatism and the alt-right. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== fatbeard race traitor ==== Verb ==== cuck (third-person singular simple present cucks, present participle cucking, simple past and past participle cucked)(slang, transitive) To cuckold or cuckquean, to be sexually unfaithful towards. To turn into a cuckold or cuckquean, to cheat with the partner of (someone). (derogatory) To weaken or emasculate, to render pathetic. (derogatory) To fool and thus lower the status of, to exploit the trust or tolerance of (to one's own benefit and the other's disadvantage); to make into a cuck (one who acts against their own interests). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Back-formation from cucking stool. ==== Verb ==== cuck (third-person singular simple present cucks, present participle cucking, simple past and past participle cucked) (obsolete, transitive) To punish (someone) by putting them in a cucking stool. === References === == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English cuck. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkuk/ [ˈkuk] Rhymes: -uk === Noun === cuck m or f (plural cucks) (Internet slang) cuck ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed. ==== Derived terms ==== == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English cok, from Old English cocc, from Proto-West Germanic *kokk. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kʊk/ === Noun === cuck (plural cockes) cock (rooster) Coordinate term: hen === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 32