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▪ I. † cuck, v.1 Obs.
In 5 also cukkyn.
[Cf. Icel. kúka cacare; kúkr merda; but the u is short in Eng.]
intr. To void excrement. Cf. cack. Hence ˈcucker; ˈcucking vbl. n.; also attrib.
c1440Promp. Parv. 143 Esyn or cukkyn..or voydyn as man at priuy place [H. cuckyn, P. kackyn], stercoriso, merdo, egero. Ibid. 106 Cukkynge, or pysynge vesselle, scaphium. a1605Montgomerie Flyting w. Polwart 87 Where I cuckied. Ibid. 735 Closet mucker, house cucker. 1606Choice, Chance, &c. (1881) 69 Hatcht out of a Cucker broode.
▪ II. † cuck, v.2 Obs.
[Back-formation from cucking-stool.]
trans. To punish by setting in the cucking-stool.
1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girl v. ii, Follow the law, and you can cuck me, spare not. 1648Manchester Court Leet Rec. (1887) IV. 25 Mary Kempe..Convicted for a Comon Scould and should have beene Cuckt by the last Constables..The said Mary Kempe [to be] Cookt accordinglie. 16..Roxb. Ballads (1874) II. 54 Oh such a scold would be cuckt.
▪ III. cuck, v.3 dial.|kʊk|
To utter the note of the cuckoo; = cook v.2 Hence ˈcucking vbl. n.
a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xiii. 106 The..cucking of Cuckows, bumling of Bees. 18..Northumbrld. Rime in Swainson Prov. Names Birds 111 The cuckoo comes of mid March And cucks of mid Aperill.
▪ IV. cuck, v.4 dial.
Also cook.
[Cf. chuck.]
To throw, cast, chuck. Hence ˈcuck-ball, a kind of rounders.
1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Cook, to throw. ‘Cook me that ball.’ Glou. 1788W. Hutton Bosworth Field Introd. (1813) 17 In his father's house..he cuckt his ball.. with the same delight as other lads. 1881Leicester Gloss., Cuck, to throw; also to jerk, lurch. ‘Cuck us the ball’; ‘The carriage cucks about so’. 1888Sheffield Gloss., Cuck-ball, a game at ball.
▪ V. † cuck, n. Obs.
Short for cuckold.
1707E. Ward Hud. Rediv. (1715) i. xv, Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the frighted Cucks from thence. |