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Adriodinho said:I like NSP and I am a gayer.
What does that make me?
a xxxx
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Tony Meolas Loan Spell said:
Bully....
Uncle Spielberg
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Whats all this us and them shite with NSC and NSP we are both Albion supporters for fecks sake.
That is all.
That is all.
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Adriodinho said:I like NSP and I am a gayer.
What does that make me?
A gayer that likes NSP.
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Nurse Laura
Adriodinho said:I like NSP and I am a gayer.
What does that make me?
A c.unt
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Nurse Laura
Tony Meolas Loan Spell said:
damn you!
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Uncle Spielberg said:
ERRRR no we're not
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For those obsessed with the word, and there seem to be plenty on NSP, read away. Hopefully you may get bored with it and start using equally shocking words like "poo" and "smelly"
xxxx
For other uses of the word in popular culture, see below.
xxxx is an English slang word that refers to the human female genitals. It is considered by some to be amongst the most offensive words in the English language. In modern English, the word vagina is considered to be much more polite, though strictly speaking this Latin word refers only to the internal female genitalia, unlike vulva. The earliest citation of the word in the Oxford English Dictionary is a reference to the London street name "Gropecunt Lane" dated to about 1230.
Usage
Like many vulgar words, xxxx owes some of its potency to its phonetic characteristics. Its monosyllabic nature, combined with the hard k sound at the beginning and the sharp t at the end make it well-suited for use as an epithet or interjection.
In non-amorous situations, "xxxx" is primarily used as a term of personal abuse, generally considered the most offensive description of either a man or (especially) a woman. In American English, it implies that the named person - usually a woman - is extremely nasty and unpleasant in a way that far exceeds the vehemence of the word "bitch". For instance in the film of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, the central character McMurphy, when pressed to explain exactly why he doesn't like the tyrannical Nurse Ratched, says: "She's something of a xxxx, ain't she?"
In British English xxxx, also considered a foul and insulting word by many, is more often used by a man about (or towards) another man, implying that the named person is extremely obnoxious and malicious. In Australian, and to a lesser extent British English, however, while still being considered highly offensive in most contexts, the word is also often used and received more gently, to the extent that in some situations it has a comedic quality and can even be used as a term of affection; this is less often the case in American English, however.
During foreplay and/or sex, men and women alike may be excited by using the word "xxxx" to refer to female genitalia. This is probably due, in part, to its phonetic potency (see above) and its perceived "dirtiness."
The word is considered by some commentators to be more offensive in the United States than it is in some other English speaking countries, specifically Scotland, England and Australia, where xxxx is occasionally used as a jovial term of endearment (e.g. "he's a lucky xxxx"). This usage is, however, also not considered polite.
The homosexual male (and to a lesser extent, the lesbian female) community is one segment of American society that uses the word xxxx in an endearing manner. To many gay men, xxxx is a part of everyday language and not considered offensive.
Some commentators argue that the growing acceptance, as they see it, of the word f*** in print and broadcast media, renders the word xxxx as the last genuinely unprintable and unsayable expletive in the mainstream media. The taboo status of the word has been the cause of many deliberate challenges: in January 2005, the BBC courted controversy after it broadcast Jerry Springer - The Opera on British television. The performance included the phrase "xxxxxxx, xxxxxxx, xxxxxxx, xxxxxxx xxxx" (a description of the Devil). This echoed appearances in well-known US movies and TV shows. The horror movie, The Exorcist, included the line: "Do you know what she did, your xxxxxxx daughter?", and the Tom Selleck film An Innocent Man saw a female character referred to as "your crusading xxxx of a wife", while Ricky Roma (Al Pacino) refers to Williamson (Kevin Spacey) as "You stupid f***ing xxxx, you idiot!" in Glengarry Glen Ross. The critically acclaimed HBO TV shows The Sopranos and Deadwood also make frequent use of the word; and two episodes of the sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm ("Beloved Aunt" and "The Shrimp Incident") are devoted to the comical repercussions of its inadvertent use. The climax of Kill Bill, Volume 2 - after Bill's death has been rendered inevitable through the Bride's use of the Five-Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, Bill makes some affectionate remarks to the Bride but concludes that she "can be a real xxxx". Finally, the movie The Way of The Gun highlights, in its opening sequence, the following phrase, "Shut that xxxx's mouth or I'll come over there and f***-start her head."
A modern derivative adjective, "****ish", meaning "frustrating" or "awkward" or sometimes (about the behaviour of a person) "selfish", appears in Hiberno-English and is increasingly used in Britain. Another one, gaining popularity amongst clubbers is "xxxxxx", meaning "incoherent" or "exhausted". The word "xxxxx" is also used in the US comedy Entourage.
Australasian working-class usage
xxxx is used extensively in Australia and New Zealand as a replacement noun, more commonly among males and the working classes, in a similar fashion to the US term motherfucker among some African-Americans in extremely casual settings. For instance, "The xxxx won't start" referring to a car that won't start, "pass me the xxxx" meaning pass me the item I need, or "Those xxxxx down the road" referring to people in the vicinity. The term does not necessarily imply contempt nor is it necessarily intended to be offensive. xxxx is sometimes used as a term of endearment. For example the phrase "How about I buy you a beer you dumb xxxx" could be easily taken without any offence and possibly a hint of affection.
To illustrate the usage of xxxx in Australia is the phrase "My cock may be small, but it only has to please one xxxx, and that xxxx is me!". The joke here, aside from sexual inadequacy and selfishness, is that "xxxx" refers to female genitalia but in popular Australian usage is more likely a replacement noun used to refer to people or objects. Australian males are more likely to use slut, slapper, slag, bushpig or slurry as a misogynistic term for females than xxxx.
Often when xxxx is intended to offend it is used to mean an obnoxious person, rather than the more commonly used replacement noun, for instance "That xxxx over there" is less offensive than "That person over there is a xxxx".
xxxx is also used as an expletive to show frustration, annoyance or anger. "I've had a xxxx of a day!" or "This is a xxxx to finish".
Australians also have a habit of pairing the word with another to give a more specifc meaning or simply a greater affect. Common examples include: xxxx-lapper (a despicable person), xxxx-starver (someone convicted of not making alimony payments) xxxx-scrape (a general insult, perhaps a reference to a pap smear) and xxxx-rash (visible disorder of the female genitalia, again normally a general insult).
Euphemisms
See you next Tuesday - C U Next Tuesday. Originating from the London area, but now having more widespread use, especially within the south of England. An example of usage would be: "Oh that bloke is such a see you next Tuesday". (It must be noted, however, that not many situations arise where one would want to refer to another as a xxxx and not use the term itself.)
Can't Use Normal Thinking - "That woman has a problem, she just can't use normal thinking".
See You, Auntie - When said aloud, the speaker sounds as if he's spelling "xxxx". Published in the liner notes of Tool's album, Ænima.
"Civilian Under Naval Training." - US Naval term.
"Computer User, Non-Technical" - Used in the information technology field, referring to unsavvy users.
Berk - Standard Cockney rhyming slang, short for "Berkeley Hunt". "Berkshire Hunt", is thought to be of Australian derivation. [1] [2]
A "little All Quiet On The Western" was a phrase used by Australian TV personality Graham Kennedy, employing rhyming slang.
"xxxx-ry music loving lady" - from comedy series Arrested Development
"Country matters" - a phrase used by Shakespeare*Caring Understanding Nineties Type - Throwback to the ever-popular term SNAG (Sensitive New Age Guy).
Clark Unleashed Nineteen Tigres - reference to 80s BBC travelling lion tamer Daniel Clark.
Roger Hunt - in reference to the 60's Liverpool And England Forward.
Condescending Runt is used by Linda La Hughes in Gimme Gimme Gimme.
Mike Hunt - an average name when said quickly can sound like my xxxx.
Gareth Hunt - actor popular in the Seventies
Silly bunt - a joke in a Monty Python sketch, where a man with a speech impediment replaces the initial 'c' or 'k' consonant with 'b' in all words.
James Blunt - very new rhyming slang gaining acceptance in Britain. "He's a bit of a James"
Feminist viewpoints
Some feminists seek to reclaim xxxx as an acceptable word for the female genitalia, in the interest of removing the power associated with its use. Some abhor the word and regard it, based on its more recent connotation, as degrading and misogynistic, though it has also been suggested that "vagina" is offensive as it is literally Latin for "a sheath for a sword", the sword being the penis.
Critics of the word claim that the lack of any comparable term for the male genitalia demonstrates a profound cultural contempt, not only for specific females, but for women in general. Defenders of the word argue that terms for male genitals are used in an equally insulting way, though they claim the degree of this "equivalence" differs between English speaking cultures (examples include "cock", "prick", "dick-head", "utter balls" (or "bollocks") [British], etc). Despite these criticisms, there is a small movement amongst some feminists that seek to reclaim xxxx as an honorific, in much the same way that "queer" has been reclaimed by homosexuals. [3] Proponents include Inga Muscio in her book, xxxx: A Declaration of Independence, and Eve Ensler in her monologue "Reclaiming xxxx" (from "The Vagina Monologues").
The word was similarly reclaimed by Angela Carter who used it in the title story of "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories"; a female character describing female genitalia in a pornography book: “her xxxx a split fig below the great globes of her buttocks”.
More recently, the archetypal feminist Germaine Greer discussed the origins, usage and power of the word in the BBC series Balderdash and Piffle, which examines the etymology of many English words and phrases, most especially those whose origins have limited written evidence (required to be included as citations in the Oxford English Dictionary). Greer suggests at the end of the piece that there is something precious about the word, in that it is now one of the few remaining words in English that still retains its power to shock.
Etymology
xxxx is an old Germanic word, and appeared as cunte in Middle English and kunta in Old Norse. It has cognates in most Germanic languages, such as the Swedish and Norwegian kunta†, Frisian kunte, and Dutch kut (while kont in Dutch means bum, strangely the Dutch word for 'xxxx' the earlier mentioned 'kut' is considered to be considerably less offensive in the Dutch speaking areas than xxxx is in the English speaking world). Interestingly, the Afrikaans word 'kont' is equivalent to the english 'xxxx' and is even more offensive to Afrikaans-speakers than 'xxxx' is for English-speakers. It goes back to an Old Germanic stem kunton.
Its original derivation however is disputed. It may have arisen by Grimm's law operating on the Proto-Indo-European root gen/gon = "create, become" seen in gonads, genital, gamete, genetics, gene, or the Proto-Indo-European root gwneH2/guneH2 = "woman" seen in gynaecology. Relationships to similar-sounding words such as the Latin cunnus (vulva), French con, and Spanish coño have not been conclusively demonstrated. Other Latin words related to cunnus: cuneatus, wedge-shaped; cuneo v. fasten with a wedge; (figurative) to wedge in, squeeze in, leading to English words like cuneiform and cunnilingus.
A derivation from yet another Proto-Indo-European root (PIE *ku- or *keu-, "to cover") is mentioned in Eric Partridge's Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, New York: Greenwich House, Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc. MCMLVIII, MCMLIX, MCMLXI, MCMLXVI, ISBN 0517414252, page 135. A non-Indo-European origin for the word is also suggested:
xxxx: ME cunte (occ counte), recorded once in OE: OFris kunte, akin to ON kunta, MLG-LG kunte, D kunte, MD conte; also to MF (and F) con, OF varr cun, cunne; like It conno, from L cunnus, s cun-. The presence of t in the Gmc has long puzzled the etymologists: even Walther von Wartburg aligns the Gmc kunta, kunte, with the L cunnus only under the aegis of a question-mark; for cunnus, E & M adduce the syn Greek kusthos and the Persian kun, the posterior, but they omit to cite the Hittite kun, tail; for kusthos, Hofmann proposes an orig *kuzdhos, with extended r *kus- or *keus- and with true IE r *ku- or *keu-, to hide or conceal, and he adduces L cutis, skin which has s cut-, extension of r *cu-, *ku-, the skin being a coverer.
But is it not probable that the word is of common Mediterranean stock: Egyptian offers qefen-t, vagina, vulva, akin to the n-lacking Egyptian ka-t, vagina, vulva, mother, women collectively. There are also several Semitic cognates. The basic idea is prob 'essential femininity'.
xxxx has been in common use in English since at least the 13th century. It did not appear in any major dictionary of the English language from 1795 to 1961 (when it was included in Webster's Third New International Dictionary, with the comment "usu. considered obscene"). Its first appearance in the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1972, which cites the word as having been in use since 1230 in what was supposedly a current London street name of "Gropecuntelane".
The word appears several times in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (c1390), in bawdy contexts, but it does not appear to be thought of as obscene at this point, since it is used openly. A notable use is from the Miller's Tale "Pryvely he caught her by the queynte". The Wife of Bath also uses this term, "For certeyn, olde dotard, by your leave/You shall have queynte right enough at eve...What aileth you to grouche thus and groan?/Is it for ye would have my queynte alone?". In modernised versions of these passages the word "queynte" is usually translated simply as "xxxx" [4] [5]. However, in Chaucer's usage there seems to be an overlap between the words "xxxx" and "quaint" (possibly derived from the Latin for 'known'). Quaint was probably pronounced in Middle English in much the same way as xxxx. It is sometimes unclear whether the two words were thought of as distinct from one another. Elsewhere in Chaucer's work the word queynte seems to be used with meaning comparable to the modern "quaint" (charming, appealing).
By Shakespeare's day, the word seems to have been thought of as obscene. Although Shakespeare doesn't use the word explicitly (or with derogatory meaning) in his plays, he still has fun with it, using wordplay to sneak it in. In Act III, Scene 2, of Hamlet, as the castle's residents are settling in to watch the play-within-the-play, Hamlet asks Ophelia, "Lady, shall I lie in your lap?" Ophelia of course, replies, "No, my lord." Hamlet, feigning shock, says, "Do you think I meant country matters?" Then, to drive home the point that the accent is definitely on the first syllable of country, Shakespeare has Hamlet say, "That's a fair thought, to lie between maids' legs." Also see Twelfth Night (Act II, Scene V): "There be her very Cs, her Us, and her Ts: and thus makes she her great Ps." A related scene occurs in Henry V, when Katherine is learning English, she is appalled at the "gros et impudique" English words "foot" and "gown", which her English teacher has mispronounced as "coun". Presumably Shakespeare intends to suggest that she has misheard "foot" as "foutre" (French, "f***") and "coun" as "con" (French, "idiot" (although literally "xxxx")).
By the 17th century a softer form of the word, cunny, came into use. "Cunny-handed" meaning "left-handed" is an example of its usage. This was probably derived from a pun on "coney", meaning "rabbit", rather as "pussy" is connected to the same term for a cat. (Philip Massinger: "A pox upon your Christian cockatrices! They cry, like poulterers' wives, 'No money, no coney.'") Largely because of this usage, the word "coney" to refer to rabbits changed pronunciation from short "o" (like money and honey) to long "o" (cone, as in Coney Island), and has now almost completely disappeared from most dialects of English, much in the same way that the word "pussy" is now rarely used to refer to a cat.
Similar word-play has been used more recently. The English band The Sex Pistols recorded a song entitled '"Pretty Vacant", pronounced pretty vay-khunt.
Double act Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are often credited with having made the word more acceptable and accessible in the UK in the 20th Century through their Derek and Clive dialogues. In one sketch called "This Bloke Came Up To Me", the word is used 31 times in the course of two minutes.
The first time the word was used on television was by Felix Dennis (though it was somewhat difficult to decipher) in 1970 on the The Frost Programme.
Some 30 years later,it was used by supermodel Caprice Bourret while being interviewed live about her role in The Vagina Monologues in the UK daytime programme This Morning.
In 2004, University of Colorado president Betsy Hoffman fanned the flames of a football rape case when, during a deposition, she was asked if she thought "xxxx" was a "filthy and vile" word. She replied that it was a "swear word" but had "actually heard it used as a term of endearment." A spokesperson later clarified that Hoffman meant the word had polite meanings in its original use centuries ago, such as in Canterbury Tales. In the rape case, a CU football player had allegedly called female player Katie Hnida a "f***ing lovely xxxx".
Other meanings
The word forms part of some technical terms used in seafaring and other industries.
A xxxx splice is a form of knot used in rigging on ships.
The Ashley Book of Knots ISBN 0385040253, by Clifford W. Ashley, frequently uses the word cuntline to refer to the spiral groove between strands of twisted cordage. The author never defines the term, but assumes that he would be understood. The book was first printed in 1944 and would have been censored at that time if the word had been considered offensive.
A Dictionary of Sea Terms, published in 1841, defines the cuntline differently, as "the space between the bilges of two casks, stowed side by side. Where one cask is set upon the cuntline between two others, they are stowed bilge and cuntline." [6] The "bilge" of a barrel or cask is the widest point, so when stored together the two casks would produce a curved V-shaped gap.
U.S. military men refer to a folded cover, which has a seam at the front and back, an opening along the top, and major and minor invagination, worn by enlisted men, as a "xxxx cap" privately. The "xxxx cap" is widely available as an ex-USSR (and satellite state) surplus item in Army/Navy stores. It is also in use in the United States Armed Forces, notably in the United States Air Force as part of its dress uniform and service dress uniform. This hat was was also used by the Boy Scouts of America up until the mid 1980's when the uniform was redisigned.
The term xxxx hair is used as a measurement in construction; an expansion of 'to move it a hair' or very small distance. A color may be added as an adjective to further define the degree of adjustment, such as RCH (red xxxx hair as a coarse adjustment, a 'blonde' one would be a finer adjustment). These terms in electronics and metrology commonly refer to .001 and .0001 increments, with the "red xxxx hair" being the finer increment and no reference to a 'blonde xxxx hair' is used. The term is also used liberally in restaurant kitchens. A prep cook may ask his Sous chef or head chef how thin he should slice a certain vegetable. The chef may respond "Thinner than a xxxx hair!"
Testimonials
"I'm a really big fan of xxxx over words like pussy, and especially, vagina. The word has this great guttural sound that lets you get right into it. Pussy and vagina are really dirty words – you only ever hear really greasy men saying things like that. xxxx lets women be vulgar without being derogatory."
Calista Flockhart, at a staging of The Vagina Monologues
"Those words ('bullshit', 'prick', 'pissed off', 'f*** you', and 'xxxx') are now liberated from shame. They're in the dictionary now, finally. And the reason they came to the dictionary, finally, was through continual usage. Enough guys said to their wives 'YOU xxxx!' Pow! And that's why it's in the dictionary now: C-u-n-t."
Lenny Bruce, discussing the 1961 Webster's Third New International Dictionary
See also
Seven dirty words
External links
The Etymology of Sexual Slang Terms
xxxx: A Cultural History
Further reading
Inga Muscio, xxxx: A declaration of Independence [Seal Press]
Barbara G. Walker, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets [Harper & Row]
xxxx, a 1999 novel by Stewart Home
Lady Love Your xxxx, 1969 article by Germaine Greer and 1993 song by UK band SMASH
Uses in popular culture
xxxx is also an album by Australian grindcore band Blood Duster. The album also features the track "Don't Call Me Homeboy Ya' xxxx".
Just Like a xxxx and A xxxx Like You are two songs by U.K. power electronics pioneers Whitehouse.
xxxx, a term often used by U.S. riot grrl singer Jessicka (Scarling., Jack Off Jill); "Cumdumpster" lyrics (Sexless Demons & Scars): "C-c-c-c-call me cumdumpster, C-c-c-c-call me a xxxx, C-c-c-call me clever, Is that still ok?"
"I Might Be a xxxx, But I'm Not a f***ing xxxx", a 1998 song by Australian band TISM, who also released an album entitled Australia the Lucky xxxx (a play on the phrase "Australia the lucky country") in 1993. Despite the song's title and content, it received considerable radio air-time. Australian radio censorship laws forbidding the use of 'f***' or 'xxxx' on-air would have rendered the song's title unintelligble, so it was introduced as "TISM's latest song" or simply "That TISM song".
xxxx was a fictional documentary about a hipster/media wannabe, Nathan Barley, listed in TVGoHome, a spoof television listings website. It later formed the basis of a Channel 4 sitcom, Nathan Barley.
"xxxx" is used by the Australian artist Kevin Bloody Wilson in several songs, such as: "You Can't Say xxxx in Canada" and "I Had an Absolute xxxx of a Day".
Used in The Exorcist.
Extensively used in the Scottish novel Trainspotting (novel) (1993) and the 1996 film of the same name.
Extensively used in the film adaptation of John King's novel, The Football Factory (2004)
C.U.N.T. was a student magazine at University College Dublin in 1978. It stood for "Catholic University News and Times".
K.U.N.T is also an unofficial student magazine at the University of Kent. It stands for Kent University News Today.
Anal xxxx is a U.S. grindcore band.
In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, "xxxx" is a well known name for the vehicle driven by local celebrity "Pimp Bob", who converted a 2003 Nissan Xterra into a moving metallic cut-out of the word "xxxx" to celebrate the launch of the Sabrina pornography videos.
Writer Henry Miller frequently used the word in his autobiographical novels, sometimes to refer to the female genitalia and sometimes to refer to a woman.
"Entrails Ripped From A Virgin's xxxx" is a song by the death metal band Cannibal Corpse.
"Gilded xxxx" is a song from Cradle of Filth's 2004 album, Nymphetamine.
"A Smart xxxx" is a novella by Scottish author Irvine Welsh.
"Taboo" is a song by Australian band Man Bites God in which the band sing the word xxxx in harmony to Pachelbel's Canon.
When an episode of the controversial spoof-documentary series Brass Eye was subjected to an eleventh hour cut by the then-Chief Executive of Channel 4 Michael Grade, Chris Morris retaliated by inserting a subliminal message into a subsequent episode: "Grade is a xxxx".
Grand Funk Railroad has a song called 'T.N.U.C', which is of course 'xxxx' spelled backwards.
In the popular animated television series, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the Mooninites make a prank phone call to the Plutonians and ask for a "Mike Hunt", which when said out loud, sounds like "My xxxx". There is a noticeable delay between Mike and Hunt, so an appropriate rating could be retained for the episode.
"Anal xxxx" is a song by punk rock group G.G. Allin and the Murder Junkies on their album "Brutality and Bloodshed for All".
"xxxx" is used extensively in the monologue "Reclaiming xxxx" from The Vagina Monologues.
Selfish xxxx are a covertly popular grot-punk band in the UK.
In an episode of Larry David's HBO comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm; Larry, while playing a poker game, uses the word xxxx to refer to an effeminate man at the table who has just made a weak play. To Larry's surprise everyone at the table is horrified by his use of this word, despite the fact that a previous conversation centered around the use of the word f***. In a later scene Larry reconsiders the situation: "in retrospect perhaps I should have said pussy"
In the critically acclaimed film "American Beauty" Mena Suvari calls a girl a "xxxx" after having an argument.
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Translations
Translations for: xxxx
Nederlands (Dutch)
kut, rotzak
Français (French)
con, connard
Deutsch (German)
n. - (vulg.) Fotze, Arschloch
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. (καθομ.) αιδοίο, μουνί, (καθομ.) γκομενάκι, μουνάκι, (Βρετ.) λεχρίτης, μαλάκας
Italiano (Italian)
fica, stronza
Português (Portuguese)
n. - vagina (f) (gír.), mulher (f) vulgar
Русский (Russian)
пизда, ебля
Español (Spanish)
n. - coño, concha
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fitta (vulg.)
中国话 (Simplified Chinese)
n. - 阴道, 性交, 女性之阴部
中國話 (Traditional Chinese)
n. - 陰道, 性交, 女性之陰部
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 女性性器, 性交
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) فرج المرأة
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ערוות אישה, נקבה, טיפש, "כוס" (פות)
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xxxx is mentioned in the following topics:
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For other uses of the word in popular culture, see below.
xxxx is an English slang word that refers to the human female genitals. It is considered by some to be amongst the most offensive words in the English language. In modern English, the word vagina is considered to be much more polite, though strictly speaking this Latin word refers only to the internal female genitalia, unlike vulva. The earliest citation of the word in the Oxford English Dictionary is a reference to the London street name "Gropecunt Lane" dated to about 1230.
Usage
Like many vulgar words, xxxx owes some of its potency to its phonetic characteristics. Its monosyllabic nature, combined with the hard k sound at the beginning and the sharp t at the end make it well-suited for use as an epithet or interjection.
In non-amorous situations, "xxxx" is primarily used as a term of personal abuse, generally considered the most offensive description of either a man or (especially) a woman. In American English, it implies that the named person - usually a woman - is extremely nasty and unpleasant in a way that far exceeds the vehemence of the word "bitch". For instance in the film of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, the central character McMurphy, when pressed to explain exactly why he doesn't like the tyrannical Nurse Ratched, says: "She's something of a xxxx, ain't she?"
In British English xxxx, also considered a foul and insulting word by many, is more often used by a man about (or towards) another man, implying that the named person is extremely obnoxious and malicious. In Australian, and to a lesser extent British English, however, while still being considered highly offensive in most contexts, the word is also often used and received more gently, to the extent that in some situations it has a comedic quality and can even be used as a term of affection; this is less often the case in American English, however.
During foreplay and/or sex, men and women alike may be excited by using the word "xxxx" to refer to female genitalia. This is probably due, in part, to its phonetic potency (see above) and its perceived "dirtiness."
The word is considered by some commentators to be more offensive in the United States than it is in some other English speaking countries, specifically Scotland, England and Australia, where xxxx is occasionally used as a jovial term of endearment (e.g. "he's a lucky xxxx"). This usage is, however, also not considered polite.
The homosexual male (and to a lesser extent, the lesbian female) community is one segment of American society that uses the word xxxx in an endearing manner. To many gay men, xxxx is a part of everyday language and not considered offensive.
Some commentators argue that the growing acceptance, as they see it, of the word f*** in print and broadcast media, renders the word xxxx as the last genuinely unprintable and unsayable expletive in the mainstream media. The taboo status of the word has been the cause of many deliberate challenges: in January 2005, the BBC courted controversy after it broadcast Jerry Springer - The Opera on British television. The performance included the phrase "xxxxxxx, xxxxxxx, xxxxxxx, xxxxxxx xxxx" (a description of the Devil). This echoed appearances in well-known US movies and TV shows. The horror movie, The Exorcist, included the line: "Do you know what she did, your xxxxxxx daughter?", and the Tom Selleck film An Innocent Man saw a female character referred to as "your crusading xxxx of a wife", while Ricky Roma (Al Pacino) refers to Williamson (Kevin Spacey) as "You stupid f***ing xxxx, you idiot!" in Glengarry Glen Ross. The critically acclaimed HBO TV shows The Sopranos and Deadwood also make frequent use of the word; and two episodes of the sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm ("Beloved Aunt" and "The Shrimp Incident") are devoted to the comical repercussions of its inadvertent use. The climax of Kill Bill, Volume 2 - after Bill's death has been rendered inevitable through the Bride's use of the Five-Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, Bill makes some affectionate remarks to the Bride but concludes that she "can be a real xxxx". Finally, the movie The Way of The Gun highlights, in its opening sequence, the following phrase, "Shut that xxxx's mouth or I'll come over there and f***-start her head."
A modern derivative adjective, "****ish", meaning "frustrating" or "awkward" or sometimes (about the behaviour of a person) "selfish", appears in Hiberno-English and is increasingly used in Britain. Another one, gaining popularity amongst clubbers is "xxxxxx", meaning "incoherent" or "exhausted". The word "xxxxx" is also used in the US comedy Entourage.
Australasian working-class usage
xxxx is used extensively in Australia and New Zealand as a replacement noun, more commonly among males and the working classes, in a similar fashion to the US term motherfucker among some African-Americans in extremely casual settings. For instance, "The xxxx won't start" referring to a car that won't start, "pass me the xxxx" meaning pass me the item I need, or "Those xxxxx down the road" referring to people in the vicinity. The term does not necessarily imply contempt nor is it necessarily intended to be offensive. xxxx is sometimes used as a term of endearment. For example the phrase "How about I buy you a beer you dumb xxxx" could be easily taken without any offence and possibly a hint of affection.
To illustrate the usage of xxxx in Australia is the phrase "My cock may be small, but it only has to please one xxxx, and that xxxx is me!". The joke here, aside from sexual inadequacy and selfishness, is that "xxxx" refers to female genitalia but in popular Australian usage is more likely a replacement noun used to refer to people or objects. Australian males are more likely to use slut, slapper, slag, bushpig or slurry as a misogynistic term for females than xxxx.
Often when xxxx is intended to offend it is used to mean an obnoxious person, rather than the more commonly used replacement noun, for instance "That xxxx over there" is less offensive than "That person over there is a xxxx".
xxxx is also used as an expletive to show frustration, annoyance or anger. "I've had a xxxx of a day!" or "This is a xxxx to finish".
Australians also have a habit of pairing the word with another to give a more specifc meaning or simply a greater affect. Common examples include: xxxx-lapper (a despicable person), xxxx-starver (someone convicted of not making alimony payments) xxxx-scrape (a general insult, perhaps a reference to a pap smear) and xxxx-rash (visible disorder of the female genitalia, again normally a general insult).
Euphemisms
See you next Tuesday - C U Next Tuesday. Originating from the London area, but now having more widespread use, especially within the south of England. An example of usage would be: "Oh that bloke is such a see you next Tuesday". (It must be noted, however, that not many situations arise where one would want to refer to another as a xxxx and not use the term itself.)
Can't Use Normal Thinking - "That woman has a problem, she just can't use normal thinking".
See You, Auntie - When said aloud, the speaker sounds as if he's spelling "xxxx". Published in the liner notes of Tool's album, Ænima.
"Civilian Under Naval Training." - US Naval term.
"Computer User, Non-Technical" - Used in the information technology field, referring to unsavvy users.
Berk - Standard Cockney rhyming slang, short for "Berkeley Hunt". "Berkshire Hunt", is thought to be of Australian derivation. [1] [2]
A "little All Quiet On The Western" was a phrase used by Australian TV personality Graham Kennedy, employing rhyming slang.
"xxxx-ry music loving lady" - from comedy series Arrested Development
"Country matters" - a phrase used by Shakespeare*Caring Understanding Nineties Type - Throwback to the ever-popular term SNAG (Sensitive New Age Guy).
Clark Unleashed Nineteen Tigres - reference to 80s BBC travelling lion tamer Daniel Clark.
Roger Hunt - in reference to the 60's Liverpool And England Forward.
Condescending Runt is used by Linda La Hughes in Gimme Gimme Gimme.
Mike Hunt - an average name when said quickly can sound like my xxxx.
Gareth Hunt - actor popular in the Seventies
Silly bunt - a joke in a Monty Python sketch, where a man with a speech impediment replaces the initial 'c' or 'k' consonant with 'b' in all words.
James Blunt - very new rhyming slang gaining acceptance in Britain. "He's a bit of a James"
Feminist viewpoints
Some feminists seek to reclaim xxxx as an acceptable word for the female genitalia, in the interest of removing the power associated with its use. Some abhor the word and regard it, based on its more recent connotation, as degrading and misogynistic, though it has also been suggested that "vagina" is offensive as it is literally Latin for "a sheath for a sword", the sword being the penis.
Critics of the word claim that the lack of any comparable term for the male genitalia demonstrates a profound cultural contempt, not only for specific females, but for women in general. Defenders of the word argue that terms for male genitals are used in an equally insulting way, though they claim the degree of this "equivalence" differs between English speaking cultures (examples include "cock", "prick", "dick-head", "utter balls" (or "bollocks") [British], etc). Despite these criticisms, there is a small movement amongst some feminists that seek to reclaim xxxx as an honorific, in much the same way that "queer" has been reclaimed by homosexuals. [3] Proponents include Inga Muscio in her book, xxxx: A Declaration of Independence, and Eve Ensler in her monologue "Reclaiming xxxx" (from "The Vagina Monologues").
The word was similarly reclaimed by Angela Carter who used it in the title story of "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories"; a female character describing female genitalia in a pornography book: “her xxxx a split fig below the great globes of her buttocks”.
More recently, the archetypal feminist Germaine Greer discussed the origins, usage and power of the word in the BBC series Balderdash and Piffle, which examines the etymology of many English words and phrases, most especially those whose origins have limited written evidence (required to be included as citations in the Oxford English Dictionary). Greer suggests at the end of the piece that there is something precious about the word, in that it is now one of the few remaining words in English that still retains its power to shock.
Etymology
xxxx is an old Germanic word, and appeared as cunte in Middle English and kunta in Old Norse. It has cognates in most Germanic languages, such as the Swedish and Norwegian kunta†, Frisian kunte, and Dutch kut (while kont in Dutch means bum, strangely the Dutch word for 'xxxx' the earlier mentioned 'kut' is considered to be considerably less offensive in the Dutch speaking areas than xxxx is in the English speaking world). Interestingly, the Afrikaans word 'kont' is equivalent to the english 'xxxx' and is even more offensive to Afrikaans-speakers than 'xxxx' is for English-speakers. It goes back to an Old Germanic stem kunton.
Its original derivation however is disputed. It may have arisen by Grimm's law operating on the Proto-Indo-European root gen/gon = "create, become" seen in gonads, genital, gamete, genetics, gene, or the Proto-Indo-European root gwneH2/guneH2 = "woman" seen in gynaecology. Relationships to similar-sounding words such as the Latin cunnus (vulva), French con, and Spanish coño have not been conclusively demonstrated. Other Latin words related to cunnus: cuneatus, wedge-shaped; cuneo v. fasten with a wedge; (figurative) to wedge in, squeeze in, leading to English words like cuneiform and cunnilingus.
A derivation from yet another Proto-Indo-European root (PIE *ku- or *keu-, "to cover") is mentioned in Eric Partridge's Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, New York: Greenwich House, Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc. MCMLVIII, MCMLIX, MCMLXI, MCMLXVI, ISBN 0517414252, page 135. A non-Indo-European origin for the word is also suggested:
xxxx: ME cunte (occ counte), recorded once in OE: OFris kunte, akin to ON kunta, MLG-LG kunte, D kunte, MD conte; also to MF (and F) con, OF varr cun, cunne; like It conno, from L cunnus, s cun-. The presence of t in the Gmc has long puzzled the etymologists: even Walther von Wartburg aligns the Gmc kunta, kunte, with the L cunnus only under the aegis of a question-mark; for cunnus, E & M adduce the syn Greek kusthos and the Persian kun, the posterior, but they omit to cite the Hittite kun, tail; for kusthos, Hofmann proposes an orig *kuzdhos, with extended r *kus- or *keus- and with true IE r *ku- or *keu-, to hide or conceal, and he adduces L cutis, skin which has s cut-, extension of r *cu-, *ku-, the skin being a coverer.
But is it not probable that the word is of common Mediterranean stock: Egyptian offers qefen-t, vagina, vulva, akin to the n-lacking Egyptian ka-t, vagina, vulva, mother, women collectively. There are also several Semitic cognates. The basic idea is prob 'essential femininity'.
xxxx has been in common use in English since at least the 13th century. It did not appear in any major dictionary of the English language from 1795 to 1961 (when it was included in Webster's Third New International Dictionary, with the comment "usu. considered obscene"). Its first appearance in the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1972, which cites the word as having been in use since 1230 in what was supposedly a current London street name of "Gropecuntelane".
The word appears several times in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (c1390), in bawdy contexts, but it does not appear to be thought of as obscene at this point, since it is used openly. A notable use is from the Miller's Tale "Pryvely he caught her by the queynte". The Wife of Bath also uses this term, "For certeyn, olde dotard, by your leave/You shall have queynte right enough at eve...What aileth you to grouche thus and groan?/Is it for ye would have my queynte alone?". In modernised versions of these passages the word "queynte" is usually translated simply as "xxxx" [4] [5]. However, in Chaucer's usage there seems to be an overlap between the words "xxxx" and "quaint" (possibly derived from the Latin for 'known'). Quaint was probably pronounced in Middle English in much the same way as xxxx. It is sometimes unclear whether the two words were thought of as distinct from one another. Elsewhere in Chaucer's work the word queynte seems to be used with meaning comparable to the modern "quaint" (charming, appealing).
By Shakespeare's day, the word seems to have been thought of as obscene. Although Shakespeare doesn't use the word explicitly (or with derogatory meaning) in his plays, he still has fun with it, using wordplay to sneak it in. In Act III, Scene 2, of Hamlet, as the castle's residents are settling in to watch the play-within-the-play, Hamlet asks Ophelia, "Lady, shall I lie in your lap?" Ophelia of course, replies, "No, my lord." Hamlet, feigning shock, says, "Do you think I meant country matters?" Then, to drive home the point that the accent is definitely on the first syllable of country, Shakespeare has Hamlet say, "That's a fair thought, to lie between maids' legs." Also see Twelfth Night (Act II, Scene V): "There be her very Cs, her Us, and her Ts: and thus makes she her great Ps." A related scene occurs in Henry V, when Katherine is learning English, she is appalled at the "gros et impudique" English words "foot" and "gown", which her English teacher has mispronounced as "coun". Presumably Shakespeare intends to suggest that she has misheard "foot" as "foutre" (French, "f***") and "coun" as "con" (French, "idiot" (although literally "xxxx")).
By the 17th century a softer form of the word, cunny, came into use. "Cunny-handed" meaning "left-handed" is an example of its usage. This was probably derived from a pun on "coney", meaning "rabbit", rather as "pussy" is connected to the same term for a cat. (Philip Massinger: "A pox upon your Christian cockatrices! They cry, like poulterers' wives, 'No money, no coney.'") Largely because of this usage, the word "coney" to refer to rabbits changed pronunciation from short "o" (like money and honey) to long "o" (cone, as in Coney Island), and has now almost completely disappeared from most dialects of English, much in the same way that the word "pussy" is now rarely used to refer to a cat.
Similar word-play has been used more recently. The English band The Sex Pistols recorded a song entitled '"Pretty Vacant", pronounced pretty vay-khunt.
Double act Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are often credited with having made the word more acceptable and accessible in the UK in the 20th Century through their Derek and Clive dialogues. In one sketch called "This Bloke Came Up To Me", the word is used 31 times in the course of two minutes.
The first time the word was used on television was by Felix Dennis (though it was somewhat difficult to decipher) in 1970 on the The Frost Programme.
Some 30 years later,it was used by supermodel Caprice Bourret while being interviewed live about her role in The Vagina Monologues in the UK daytime programme This Morning.
In 2004, University of Colorado president Betsy Hoffman fanned the flames of a football rape case when, during a deposition, she was asked if she thought "xxxx" was a "filthy and vile" word. She replied that it was a "swear word" but had "actually heard it used as a term of endearment." A spokesperson later clarified that Hoffman meant the word had polite meanings in its original use centuries ago, such as in Canterbury Tales. In the rape case, a CU football player had allegedly called female player Katie Hnida a "f***ing lovely xxxx".
Other meanings
The word forms part of some technical terms used in seafaring and other industries.
A xxxx splice is a form of knot used in rigging on ships.
The Ashley Book of Knots ISBN 0385040253, by Clifford W. Ashley, frequently uses the word cuntline to refer to the spiral groove between strands of twisted cordage. The author never defines the term, but assumes that he would be understood. The book was first printed in 1944 and would have been censored at that time if the word had been considered offensive.
A Dictionary of Sea Terms, published in 1841, defines the cuntline differently, as "the space between the bilges of two casks, stowed side by side. Where one cask is set upon the cuntline between two others, they are stowed bilge and cuntline." [6] The "bilge" of a barrel or cask is the widest point, so when stored together the two casks would produce a curved V-shaped gap.
U.S. military men refer to a folded cover, which has a seam at the front and back, an opening along the top, and major and minor invagination, worn by enlisted men, as a "xxxx cap" privately. The "xxxx cap" is widely available as an ex-USSR (and satellite state) surplus item in Army/Navy stores. It is also in use in the United States Armed Forces, notably in the United States Air Force as part of its dress uniform and service dress uniform. This hat was was also used by the Boy Scouts of America up until the mid 1980's when the uniform was redisigned.
The term xxxx hair is used as a measurement in construction; an expansion of 'to move it a hair' or very small distance. A color may be added as an adjective to further define the degree of adjustment, such as RCH (red xxxx hair as a coarse adjustment, a 'blonde' one would be a finer adjustment). These terms in electronics and metrology commonly refer to .001 and .0001 increments, with the "red xxxx hair" being the finer increment and no reference to a 'blonde xxxx hair' is used. The term is also used liberally in restaurant kitchens. A prep cook may ask his Sous chef or head chef how thin he should slice a certain vegetable. The chef may respond "Thinner than a xxxx hair!"
Testimonials
"I'm a really big fan of xxxx over words like pussy, and especially, vagina. The word has this great guttural sound that lets you get right into it. Pussy and vagina are really dirty words – you only ever hear really greasy men saying things like that. xxxx lets women be vulgar without being derogatory."
Calista Flockhart, at a staging of The Vagina Monologues
"Those words ('bullshit', 'prick', 'pissed off', 'f*** you', and 'xxxx') are now liberated from shame. They're in the dictionary now, finally. And the reason they came to the dictionary, finally, was through continual usage. Enough guys said to their wives 'YOU xxxx!' Pow! And that's why it's in the dictionary now: C-u-n-t."
Lenny Bruce, discussing the 1961 Webster's Third New International Dictionary
See also
Seven dirty words
External links
The Etymology of Sexual Slang Terms
xxxx: A Cultural History
Further reading
Inga Muscio, xxxx: A declaration of Independence [Seal Press]
Barbara G. Walker, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets [Harper & Row]
xxxx, a 1999 novel by Stewart Home
Lady Love Your xxxx, 1969 article by Germaine Greer and 1993 song by UK band SMASH
Uses in popular culture
xxxx is also an album by Australian grindcore band Blood Duster. The album also features the track "Don't Call Me Homeboy Ya' xxxx".
Just Like a xxxx and A xxxx Like You are two songs by U.K. power electronics pioneers Whitehouse.
xxxx, a term often used by U.S. riot grrl singer Jessicka (Scarling., Jack Off Jill); "Cumdumpster" lyrics (Sexless Demons & Scars): "C-c-c-c-call me cumdumpster, C-c-c-c-call me a xxxx, C-c-c-call me clever, Is that still ok?"
"I Might Be a xxxx, But I'm Not a f***ing xxxx", a 1998 song by Australian band TISM, who also released an album entitled Australia the Lucky xxxx (a play on the phrase "Australia the lucky country") in 1993. Despite the song's title and content, it received considerable radio air-time. Australian radio censorship laws forbidding the use of 'f***' or 'xxxx' on-air would have rendered the song's title unintelligble, so it was introduced as "TISM's latest song" or simply "That TISM song".
xxxx was a fictional documentary about a hipster/media wannabe, Nathan Barley, listed in TVGoHome, a spoof television listings website. It later formed the basis of a Channel 4 sitcom, Nathan Barley.
"xxxx" is used by the Australian artist Kevin Bloody Wilson in several songs, such as: "You Can't Say xxxx in Canada" and "I Had an Absolute xxxx of a Day".
Used in The Exorcist.
Extensively used in the Scottish novel Trainspotting (novel) (1993) and the 1996 film of the same name.
Extensively used in the film adaptation of John King's novel, The Football Factory (2004)
C.U.N.T. was a student magazine at University College Dublin in 1978. It stood for "Catholic University News and Times".
K.U.N.T is also an unofficial student magazine at the University of Kent. It stands for Kent University News Today.
Anal xxxx is a U.S. grindcore band.
In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, "xxxx" is a well known name for the vehicle driven by local celebrity "Pimp Bob", who converted a 2003 Nissan Xterra into a moving metallic cut-out of the word "xxxx" to celebrate the launch of the Sabrina pornography videos.
Writer Henry Miller frequently used the word in his autobiographical novels, sometimes to refer to the female genitalia and sometimes to refer to a woman.
"Entrails Ripped From A Virgin's xxxx" is a song by the death metal band Cannibal Corpse.
"Gilded xxxx" is a song from Cradle of Filth's 2004 album, Nymphetamine.
"A Smart xxxx" is a novella by Scottish author Irvine Welsh.
"Taboo" is a song by Australian band Man Bites God in which the band sing the word xxxx in harmony to Pachelbel's Canon.
When an episode of the controversial spoof-documentary series Brass Eye was subjected to an eleventh hour cut by the then-Chief Executive of Channel 4 Michael Grade, Chris Morris retaliated by inserting a subliminal message into a subsequent episode: "Grade is a xxxx".
Grand Funk Railroad has a song called 'T.N.U.C', which is of course 'xxxx' spelled backwards.
In the popular animated television series, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the Mooninites make a prank phone call to the Plutonians and ask for a "Mike Hunt", which when said out loud, sounds like "My xxxx". There is a noticeable delay between Mike and Hunt, so an appropriate rating could be retained for the episode.
"Anal xxxx" is a song by punk rock group G.G. Allin and the Murder Junkies on their album "Brutality and Bloodshed for All".
"xxxx" is used extensively in the monologue "Reclaiming xxxx" from The Vagina Monologues.
Selfish xxxx are a covertly popular grot-punk band in the UK.
In an episode of Larry David's HBO comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm; Larry, while playing a poker game, uses the word xxxx to refer to an effeminate man at the table who has just made a weak play. To Larry's surprise everyone at the table is horrified by his use of this word, despite the fact that a previous conversation centered around the use of the word f***. In a later scene Larry reconsiders the situation: "in retrospect perhaps I should have said pussy"
In the critically acclaimed film "American Beauty" Mena Suvari calls a girl a "xxxx" after having an argument.
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Translations
Translations for: xxxx
Nederlands (Dutch)
kut, rotzak
Français (French)
con, connard
Deutsch (German)
n. - (vulg.) Fotze, Arschloch
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. (καθομ.) αιδοίο, μουνί, (καθομ.) γκομενάκι, μουνάκι, (Βρετ.) λεχρίτης, μαλάκας
Italiano (Italian)
fica, stronza
Português (Portuguese)
n. - vagina (f) (gír.), mulher (f) vulgar
Русский (Russian)
пизда, ебля
Español (Spanish)
n. - coño, concha
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fitta (vulg.)
中国话 (Simplified Chinese)
n. - 阴道, 性交, 女性之阴部
中國話 (Traditional Chinese)
n. - 陰道, 性交, 女性之陰部
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 女性性器, 性交
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) فرج المرأة
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ערוות אישה, נקבה, טיפש, "כוס" (פות)
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