Meanings
cuck1
plural cucks
- slangA cuckold or cuckquean.
The King was made a cuck by his faithless Queen.
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Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the frighted Cucks from thence.
1706, Edward Ward, Hudibras redivivus, I.10We 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 GuardianJeff and Allison secretly live the "hotwife/cuckold" lifestyle.
2015, Carter Saint, Coming Out As a Cuck - derogatoryslangA weakling.
That silly cuck thinks she can beat me in a fight.
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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 NovemberFrom 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 2017You'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=PA241President 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)
present singular third person cucks · participle present cucking · participle past cucked · past cucked
- slangtransitiveTo cuckold or cuckquean, to be sexually unfaithful towards.
- derogatoryslangtransitiveTo weaken or emasculate, to render pathetic.
- 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).
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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
cuck2
present singular third person cucks · participle present cucking · participle past cucked · past cucked
- 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
- Middle Englishcokewold
- Englishcuckoldclip.
- 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.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Esperanto malfortulo, cedemulo
- malfortuloweakling
- cedemuloweakling
French cocu, cocue
- cocuweakling
- cocueweakling
- cocusweakling
- cocuesweakling
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Cite this entry
cuck. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuck
“cuck.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuck. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cuck,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cuck.
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