cuck

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/kʌk/Ireland, Northern England/kʊk/

noun

A cuckold or cuckquean.

“The King was made a cuck by his faithless Queen.”

Scrabble 12

Meanings

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nouncuck (plural cucks)

plural cucks

  1. slangA cuckold or cuckquean.

    The King was made a cuck by his faithless Queen.

    3 more examples

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

    1706, Edward Ward, Hudibras redivivus, I.10

    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. derogatoryslangA weakling.

    That silly cuck thinks she can beat me in a fight.

    4 more examples

    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

    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

    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. derogatoryslangOne 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.

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

present singular third person cucks · participle present cucking · participle past cucked · past cucked

  1. slangtransitiveTo cuckold or cuckquean, to be sexually unfaithful towards.
  2. slangtransitiveTo turn into a cuckold or cuckquean, to cheat with the partner of (someone).
  3. derogatoryslangtransitiveTo weaken or emasculate, to render pathetic.
  4. derogatoryslangtransitiveTo 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).
    1 more example

    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

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

present singular third person cucks · participle present cucking · participle past cucked · past cucked

  1. obsoleteslangtransitiveTo 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

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

cuck · noun, verb

  1. Middle Englishcokewold
  2. Englishcuckoldclip.
  3. Englishcuck

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

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Translations

Esperanto malfortulo, cedemulo
  • malfortuloweakling
  • cedemuloweakling
French cocu, cocue
  • cocuweakling
  • cocueweakling
  • cocusweakling
  • cocuesweakling

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with cuck

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Sounds the same

cook (most accents without the foot–strut split)cook (most accents without the foot–strut split)cook (most accents without the foot–strut split)
Cite this entry
APA

cuck. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuck

MLA

“cuck.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuck. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cuck,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuck.

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