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cuck en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• kŭk
• /kʊk/ (Ireland, Northern-England)
• /kʌk/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English cokewold English cuckoldclip. English cuck Clipping of cuckold or cuckquean. The sense of weakling, race traitor, etc. apparently originated on 4chan in 2014 and migrated to Reddit soon after.

Meanings

1. (slang) A cuckold or cuckquean.
   • Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the frighted Cucks from thence. 1706, Edward Ward, Hudibras redivivus, I.10:
   • The King was made a cuck by his faithless Queen.
   • 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 August 17, Filipa Jodelka, The Guardian:
   • Jeff and Allison secretly live the "hotwife/cuckold" lifestyle. 2015, Carter Saint, Coming Out As a Cuck:
2. (derogatory, slang) A weakling.
   • From there cuck evolved into a catch-all way of abusing men who might be otherwise referred to as “betas”. 2017 August 3, Tim Squirrell, “The evolution of "cuck" shows that different far-right groups are learning the same language”, in New Statesman, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2017:
   • That silly cuck thinks she can beat me in a fight.
   • 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?’ 2016, Kumail Nanjiani, quoted in The Guardian, 12 November
   • You're site is SHITE. It gets hacked DAILY. You dumb cuck. 2020, "TDO" quoted by Vinny Troia in Hunting Cyber Criminalshttps://books.google.com/books?id=2a3MDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA241
   • President Trump has my back a 100%. You want to know why? Because unlike you beta cucks, he's a high-energy alpha who trusts me and listens to me no matter what. 2025 December 6, Saturday Night Live, season 51, episode 7, spoken by Peter Hegseth (Colin Jost):
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.

Forms

Deriveds

cuckservative · cuck chair · cucktard · Christcuck · Cuckistan · Americuck · wagecuck · jartycuck · cucky · soycuck · Trumpcuck · cuckery · cuckcake

Relateds

race traitor · fatbeard

Translations (6)

fr cocu (weakling) · fr cocue (weakling) · eo cedemulo (weakling) · fr cocus (weakling) · fr cocues (weakling) · eo malfortulo (weakling)

wikipedia: 4chan

cuck en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• kŭk
• /kʊk/ (Ireland, Northern-England)
• /kʌk/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English cokewold English cuckoldclip. English cuck Clipping of cuckold or cuckquean. The sense of weakling, race traitor, etc. apparently originated on 4chan in 2014 and migrated to Reddit soon after.

Meanings

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. (derogatory, slang, transitive) To weaken or emasculate, to render pathetic.
4. (derogatory, slang, transitive) 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).
   • 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. 2016 May 18, Milo Yiannopoulos, Cucked by Zuck:

Forms

Deriveds

uncucked

wikipedia: 4chan

cuck en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• kŭk
• /kʊk/ (Ireland, Northern-England)
• /kʌk/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Back-formation from cucking stool.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To punish (someone) by putting them in a cucking stool.
   • Follow the law, and you can cucke mee, spare not. 1611, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girle:

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