† cuckn.
Obsolete.
= cuckold n.1 1.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > adultery > husband of adulterous wife
cuckolda1250
cornutoc1430
unicorn1509
hoddypolla1529
summer bird1541
Actaeon1567
knight of the forked order1586
Vulcanian1598
hoddy-doddy1601
becco1604
ram-head1605
cornute1608
horn-stock1611
skimmington1623
horn-heada1640
tup1652
half-moon1659
cuck1706
1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. x. 12 Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the frighted Cucks from thence.
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cuckv.1
/kʊk/, U.S. /kʊk/ Now rare.
intransitive. Of a cuckoo: to make its characteristic call.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of cuckoo)
galec1275
cuck1599
cuckoo1620
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 50 Let constant Cuckoes cooke on euery side.
1636 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (new ed.) sig. A2 The Corbie cries, The Cuckow couks.
1846 M. A. Denham Coll. Prov. & Pop. Sayings 38 [Northumberland] The cuckoo comes of mid March, And cucks of mid Aperill.
1905 Birds & Nature Mar. 115/2 When the cuckoo begins to cook, the forest should be green. It is not a good omen if he cooks on a bare branch.
1985 W. Golding Egyptian Jrnl. i. 13 We should come back when the flowers were in bud and the cuckoo cucking.
Derivatives
ˈcucking n. the action of a cuckoo making its characteristic call; a call of ‘cuckoo’.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Cuculidae > genus Cuculus > cuculus canorus (cuckoo) > making sound
cucking1693
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xiii. 106 The..cucking of Cuckows, bumling of Bees.
1905 Birds & Nature Mar. 115/2 The cook of the cuckoo, especially his first cooking, has always been considered of great significance.
1984 D. Vere in M. A. Jeeves Behavioural Sciences 92 Gunshots..were found to come from some very ‘western’ men hunting cuckoos, whose ‘cucking’ had disturbed the filming.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† cuckv.2
Obsolete.
intransitive. To void excrement. Cf. cack n. and adj.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [verb (intransitive)]
dritea1000
to do one's filthheadc1300
shit?c1335
to go to siegec1400
scumbera1425
cack1436
to do one's easementa1438
to ease nature, ease oneselfc1440
skite1449
to do of one's needingsc1475
fen1486
dung1508
spurge1530
to cover his feet1535
lask1540
stool1540
to exonerate nature1542
file1564
fiant1575
cucka1605
wray1620
exonerate1631
excrement1632
to do one's ease1645
sir-reverence1665
excrementizec1670
nest1679
poop1689
move1699
defecate1837
crap1874
mire1918
to make a mess1928
mess1937
to go poo-poo (also poo-poos)1960
potty1972
to do a whoopsie (or whoopsies)1973
pooh1975
a1605 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 87 Where I cuckied.
Derivatives
ˈcucker n.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [noun] > one who defecates
shittera1585
cuckera1605
defecator1909
soiler1943
a1605 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 735 Closet mucker, house cucker.
1606 N. Breton Choice, Chance, & Change sig. K1 He that is hatcht out of a Cucker broode, Betwixt a Kistrell, and a Bagige kite..Is neither fit for feather, nor for flight.
ˈcucking n. also attributive.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [noun]
purgationa1387
shitting1386
officec1395
outpassinga1398
subduction?a1425
easementa1438
cuckingc1440
siegea1475
evacuation?1533
stool1541
egestion1547
dunging1558
purging1579
stooling1599
cackc1600
motion1602
dejection1605
excretion1640
exclusion1646
purgament1650
exoneration1651
disenteration1654
orduring1654
crapping1673
passage1681
seat1697
opening1797
defecation1825
excreting1849
poopc1890
movement1891
job1899
shit?1927
crap1937
dump1942
soiling1943
gick1959
jobbie1981
pooh1981
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 143 Esyn or cukkyn..or voydyn as man at priuy place [H. cuckyn, P. kackyn], stercoriso, merdo, egero.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 106 Cukkynge, or pysynge vesselle, scaphium.
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† cuckv.3
Obsolete.
transitive. To punish by setting in the cucking-stool.
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society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [verb (transitive)] > punish by ducking
flood?14..
cuck1611
duck1751
horse-pond1757
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. M2v Follow the law, and you can cucke mee, spare not.
1648 in Court Leet Rec. Manch. (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.. Roxburghe Ballads (1874) II. 54 Oh such a scold would be cuckt.
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cuckv.4
dialect.
To throw, cast, chuck.
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1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Cook, to throw. ‘Cook me that ball.’ Glou.
1788 W. Hutton Battle of Bosworth Field Introd. (1813) 17 In his father's house..he cuckt his ball.. with the same delight as other lads.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Cuck, to throw; also to jerk, lurch. ‘Cuck us the ball’; ‘The carriage cucks about so’.
Derivatives
ˈcuck-ball n. a kind of rounders.
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1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Cuck-ball, a game at ball.
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