Clipping ofcuckold orcuckquean. The sense of weakling, race traitor, etc. apparently originated on4chan in 2014 and migrated to Reddit soon after.[1]
cuck (pluralcucks)
- (slang) Acuckold orcuckquean.
1706, Edward Ward,Hudibras redivivus,I.10:Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the frightedCucks from thence.
2015 August 17, Filipa Jodelka,The Guardian:We bounce from Bisset and Seymour’s increasingly happy shagging to Worsley, the willingcuck, watching on and, finally, the trial that Worsley brings against Bisset.
2015, Carter Saint,Coming Out As aCuck:Jeff and Allison secretly live the "hotwife/cuckold" lifestyle.
The King was made acuck by his faithless Queen.
- (derogatory, slang) Aweakling.
That sillycuck thinks she can beat me in a fight.
- 2016,Kumail Nanjiani, quoted inThe 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 youcuck. Wanna go outside?’”
- 2020, "TDO" quoted by Vinny Troia inHunting Cyber Criminals[2]:
- You're[sic] site is SHITE. It gets hacked DAILY. You dumbcuck.
2025 December 6,Saturday Night Live, season51, episode 7, spoken by Peter Hegseth (Colin Jost):President Trump has my back a 100%. You want to know why? Because unlike you betacucks, he's a high-energy alpha who trusts me and listens to me no matter what.
- (derogatory, slang) One who meekly and submissively acts against their owninterests, or those of their ownrace,gender,class,religion, etc.
The feel-good petition was only supported bycucks.
- As a derogatory term, in particular in political contexts and in the meanings “weakling” and “person meekly acting against their own interests”, the nouncuck and its derived terms are strongly associated with populist conservatism and the alt-right.
person considered to be acting against their own racial, gender, national, class etc. interests
cuck (third-person singular simple presentcucks,present participlecucking,simple past and past participlecucked)(slang, transitive)
- Tocuckold orcuckquean, to besexuallyunfaithfultowards.
- To turn into acuckold orcuckquean, tocheat with the partner of (someone).
- (derogatory) Toweaken oremasculate, to renderpathetic.
- (derogatory) Tofool and thuslower thestatus of, toexploit thetrust ortolerance of (to one's own benefit and the other'sdisadvantage); to make into acuck(one who acts against their own interests).
2016 May 18,Milo Yiannopoulos,Cucked by Zuck[3]: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 werecucked a long time ago and by their enemies in the Democratic Party and liberal media.
Back-formation fromcucking stool.
cuck (third-person singular simple presentcucks,present participlecucking,simple past and past participlecucked)
- (obsolete, transitive) Topunish (someone) by putting them in acucking stool.
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishcuck.
cuck m orf (pluralcucks)
- (Internetslang)cuck
2020, Valeria Furelli,Manual del Cornudo[4], Babelcube:Para elcornudo nada podría resultar más excitante:[…] verla tomada analmente y finalmente ultrajada y sucia por el semen de otro hombre, para uncuck, no tiene precio.- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
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FromMiddle Englishcok, fromOld Englishcocc, fromProto-West Germanic*kokk.
cuck (pluralcockes)
- cock(rooster)
- Coordinate term:hen
1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page102:Meecuck was liveen michty well,- Mycock was living mighty well,
1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page102:Ho ro! meecuck is ee-go.- Ho ro! Mycock 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, published1867,page32
