Origin of the word cunt

Dutch cognate de kont means "a bottom, an arse," but Dutch also has attractive poetic slang ways of expressing this part, such as liefdesgrot , literally "cave of love," and vleesroos "rose of flesh. The title The Getaway: In a radio report about the scandal, for example, Bob Garfield referred to "a word beginning with 'c' and rhyming with 'shunt' [ The word appears once in Nicki Minaj 's song " Roman's Revenge. Similar terms are 'red c' 'red cunt', a pun on 'Red Sea' and 'open C' 'open cunt'. Used in medical writing c. Now it could bear no more.

Say it to a stranger. Archived from the original on 22 July Retrieved 18 December Similarly John Donne alludes to the obscene meaning of the word without being explicit in his poem The Good-Morrow , referring to sucking on "country pleasures.

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The meanings that refer to a woman and a contemptible person are used with disparaging intent and are perceived as highly insulting and demeaning. Cunny was probably derived from a pun on coney , meaning "rabbit", rather as pussy is connected to the same term for a cat. Keith Briggs lists numerous variants: Regularly used as a pejorative term [ The synonymy between 'cu' and femininity was in place even before the development of written language: Jacqueline Z Wilson also writes in superlative terms: