cuck - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

• enPR: kŭk, IPA^(key): /kʌk/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /kʊk/
• hom*ophone: cook (most accents without the foot-strut split)
• Rhymes: -ʌk

Clipping of cuckold. The sense of weakling, race traitor, etc. apparently originated on 4chan in 2014 and migrated to Reddit soon after.^[1]

cuck (plural cucks)

1. (slang) A cuckold or cuckquean.

   • 1706, Edward Ward, Hudibras redivivus, I.10:

     Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the frighted Cucks from thence.

   • 2015 August 17, Filipa Jodelka, The Guardian:

     We bounce from Bisset and Seymour’s increasingly happy shagging to Worsley, the willing cuck, watching on and, finally, the trial that Worsley brings against Bisset.

   • 2015, Carter Saint, Coming Out As a Cuck:

     Jeff and Allison secretly live the "hotwife/cuckold" lifestyle.

   He is a beta cuck; his wife gets gangb*nged by Cubans every fortnight.

2. (derogatory, slang) A weakling.

   That journo is such a beta cuck, she even swears by the Oxford comma.

   • 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?’”

   • 2017 August 3, Tim Squirrell, “The evolution of "cuck" shows that different far-right groups are learning the same language”, in New Statesman:

     From there cuck evolved into a catch-all way of abusing men who might be otherwise referred to as “betas”.

   • 2020, "TDO" quoted by Vinny Troia in Hunting Cyber Criminals[1]:

     You're^[sic] site is sh*tE. It gets hacked DAILY. You dumb cuck.

3. (derogatory, slang) One who meekly and submissively acts against their own interests, or those of their own race, gender, class, religion, etc.

   The feel-good petition was only supported by cucks.

• 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.

• cuck chair
• Cuckistan
• cuckservative
• cucky
• soycuck
• wagecuck

• fatbeard
• race traitor

cuck (third-person singular simple present cucks, present participle cucking, simple past and past participle cucked)

1. (slang, transitive) To cuckold or cuckquean, to be sexually unfaithful towards.
2. (slang, transitive) To turn into a cuckold or cuckquean, to cheat with the partner of (someone).
3. (slang, transitive, derogatory) To weaken or emasculate, to render pathetic.
4. (slang, transitive, 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).

   • 2016 May 18, Milo Yiannopoulos, Cucked by Zuck‎^[2]:

     It’s redolent of the way establishment conservatives lost the culture war in the first place, by bowing to the opposition, allowing others to play them for fools, and contenting themselves with the occasional scraps thrown to them by progressive elites. I said “cucked by Zuck” earlier, but in reality, they were cucked a long time ago and by their enemies in the Democratic Party and liberal media.

Back-formation from cucking stool.

cuck (third-person singular simple present cucks, present participle cucking, simple past and past participle cucked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To punish (someone) by putting them in a cucking stool.

   • 1611, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girle:

     Follow the law, and you can cucke mee, spare not.

Unadapted borrowing from English cuck.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuk/ [ˈkuk]
• Rhymes: -uk

cuckm or f (plural cucks)

1. (Internet, slang) cuck

From Middle English co*k, from Old English cocc, from Proto-West Germanic *kokk.

• IPA^(key): /kʊk/

cuck (plural co*ckes)

1. co*ck (rooster)

   Coordinate term: hen

   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 102:

     Mee cuck was liveen michty well,

     My co*ck was living mighty well,

   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 102:

     Ho ro! mee cuck is ee-go.

     Ho ro! My co*ck is agone.

• 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

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