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cuck¹

  • /kʌk/
  • /kʊk/ Ireland, Northern England

Sounds like cook (most accents without the foot–strut split) · Rhymes with -ʌk

Where it comes from

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

noun cucks

  1. slang A cuckold or cuckquean. Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the frighted Cucks from thence.
  2. derogatory, slang A weakling. That silly cuck thinks she can beat me in a fight.
  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.

verb cucks · cucking · cucked

  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 realit

cuck²

  • /kʌk/
  • /kʊk/ Ireland, Northern England

Sounds like cook (most accents without the foot–strut split) · Rhymes with -ʌk

Where it comes from

Back-formation from cucking stool.

verb cucks · cucking · cucked

  1. obsolete, slang, transitive To punish (someone) by putting them in a cucking stool. Follow the law, and you can cucke mee, spare not.

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noun weakling

Françaiscocu, cocue, cocus, cocues

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@misc{cuck_2026,
  title = {cuck},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cuck},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}