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Unt (n.): A callous cat that claws one's couch.

Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
Ophelia: No, my lord.
Hamlet: I mean, my head upon your lap?
Ophelia: Ay, my lord.
Hamlet: Do you think I meant country matters?

— Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2

Let's not beat around the bush. This is an article about the word "cunt".

Specifically, how (at least in North America) it's the one word nobody ever uses unless they want to break someone down and in the process make themselves look like a total and complete Jerkass. Even shows comfortable with using other swear words hesitate to use it, and Internet filters sometimes block other words that happen to inadvertently contain it. It is the most offensive "generic" insult possible, rivaled only by racial and ethnic slurs (depending on who's saying them). It's virtually always used to express bitter, mocking contempt, and is more likely to be directed at women than at men; when used by a man against a woman, the argument has just gone thermonuclear. Considering that the word's literal meaning is simply "female genitalia"^note, the extremely negative connotations attached to "cunt" imply that having a vagina is obscene.

Note, however, that this is only true in the US and Canada. In many parts of the United Kingdom, while "cunt" is still a very vulgar insult, it is not considered anywhere near as offensive as it is across the pond — being something like a much stronger, crasser version of "arsehole" or "bawbag" — and is therefore more likely to be used in conversation (and be heard on television), and said use is remarkably more unisex in nature. Meanwhile, in Australia and New Zealand, it can practically be a term of endearment, being used as a way of referring to your mates or even strangers, as well as an insult. However, it's still not a word you should sling around if you don't have the intuition to know how you'll be interpreted; context is important. All this can naturally result in Separated by a Common Language — for instance, the Englishman who can't understand why his American friend just broke his nose; after all, he was only having a larf.

It should also be noted that it has a somewhat different application in parts of the LGBT community, where "cunty" is used as a euphemism for extreme, often stuck-up confidence and haughtiness, particularly in the ballroom scene. As an extension of that, it is also sometimes used to refer to more flamboyant and often prim and proper gay men in black and Hispanic LGBTQ circles.

A subtype of Gendered Insult. See also T-Word Euphemism.

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Advertising

The more daring advertisers have certainly made full use of the "beaver" euphemism in their commercials over the years. In Canada, Molson has the perfect drink for chasing beaver, and in Australia, Kotex has a product for helping young ladies take care of their... beavers.
In 2016, the tourism authority for the Northern Territory of Australia introduced the slogan "CU in the NT."
Back when they could actually run cigarette commercials on television and radio, the Salem brand had a jingle, "You can take Salem out of the country, but... You can't take the country out of Salem." The singer (female) always pronounced country as "cunt-tree", and when they ran the jingle more than once, it always ended on "but..."

Anime & Manga

Black Lagoon's dub has the word used only once during the Roberta arc, as Revy is preparing for her one-on-one battle with Roberta.
Revy: Listen closely Rock. I'm about to light up like a goddamn firecracker, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. When that happens, it's pretty much over. I'm not even gonna warn you before I give you a second asshole. When she decided to use that shell on me, she made a big fucking mistake. I'm gonna make that bitch wish she was still home cleaning shitty toilets. It's time to go teach this fucking cunt the meaning of pain.
- There's also Fritz Stanford's Curse Cut Short during the Nazi arc where he tries to call Revy this after she makes him Talk to the Gun.
In episode eleven of the uncensored version of Deadman Wonderland Rokuro, who just had his ass kicked and found out that Karako was going to infiltrate the Undertakers hideout, calls her a cunt that sucks at math.
- It's used multiple times in the uncensored version of episode 6 by Minatsuki/Mockingbird after she drops her innocent persona. She tells her brother to "think of that floozy cunt you're just like" (their mother), and ends a flashback to her childhood with "The cunt actually saved the fucking primroses! Can you believe that shit?!"
Excel♡Saga has an example in one of the earlier manga chapters. Notably also a case of Sophisticated as Hell, as pointed out in the translation notes in the back of the volume.
In one Fullmetal Alchemist scanlation, Olivier Armstrong gets called a "cunt" by a Central Command general.
A weird case in Gintama where our hero Gintoki calls his Evil Former Friend's Perky Female Minion Matako, Manko, or rather Ma*ko. This is used in an odd way to fight the Japanese conservative "A woman's body belongs to a man" with her replying that while her heart belongs to her "Shinsuke-sama", her body is her own.
In the dub of High School DxD Hero, Koneko refers to Ravel as "Cuntucky Fried Chicken."
In an omake joke at the end of volume 5 of Monster Musume, cyclops girl Manako is upset because someone made fun of her name on the MON Squad roster list, by crossing out the "na" character and writing in an "n" (see above and below in Real Life). Zombina is rendered speechless trying not to laugh, Tionishia doesn't get it, and Doppel was the culprit. The joke completely fell flat in the official English translation where they simply had "nookie" scrawled in above the crossed-out "na".
In Oruchuban Ebichu, Ebichu, in front of a suggestive background, describes how the fall season is associated with chestnuts, kuri, and squirrels, risu; chestnuts and squirrels, or, kuri to risu, sounds like "clitoris". In an Eye Catch, the characters for "manko" are almost spelled out, but end up spelling "manso".
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt uses the word infrequently but most frequently by Tom Croose/Kneesocks in disguise in the segment 1 Angry Ghost, which itself is a reference to the movie, Magnolia.
In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, there's a scene where a man on a nearly empty train is trash-talking his girlfriend, and in some translations, the word "cunt" is used. This is the straw that breaks Sayaka's back and drives her to become a Witch.
In Seitokai Yakuindomo, Shino tries to teach Tsuda the meaning of the English phrase "dry eyes" by writing "ma_ko aren't getting wet" on the chalkboard. It's supposed to be filled in "manako" (eyes), but it looks a lot like the censored form of "manko" (see Real Life below).

Comedy

Arj Barker plays on this on one of his Australian tours, throwing the word into the mix when doing an encore skit about Aussies giving directions to foreigners.
Steve Byrne does a routine where he claims that "the c-word" is not the most offensive word to women now; ma'am (a shortened term for Madame used in the South) is. Then, when he describes one woman getting offended at him calling her ma'am, he concludes by telling her not to be such a cunt about it.
Perhaps the ur-example in mainstream comedy comes from George Carlin, who naturally included "cunt" in his groundbreaking seven dirty words you can't say on television. Carlin being Carlin, he seems perplexed by the peculiar aversion that many people, particularly women, seem to have towards the "C-word" in particular and notes that unlike other words like "snatch", "box" or "pussy", "cunt" is not a euphemism.
- On Complaints and Grievances, he jokes, "Do you know why weathervanes have cocks on them? Because if it was a cunt, the wind would blow right through it!"
Jimmy Carr uses this word frequently.
Louis C.K. has a whole segment about the word (and how much he loves it) on one of his HBO specials. He says that it sounds "chocolatey and round on the end" and that he sings it to himself in the laundry room. He uses it sparingly in every show, really.
- A (scripted) stand-up scene in an episode of Louie has him dealing with a female heckler by using it, though.
  Heckler: You did not just call me a c-word!
  Louie: No, I called you a cunt.
Billy Connolly gave this gem in a stand-up:
BC: You're a cunt. You're such a cunt. Why, you're so much of a cunt, that if there were a contest to find out who the biggest cunt was, you'd come in second. Why? Because you're a cunt!
Bill Hicks used the word freely once when handling a female heckler.
In the Jim Jefferies HBO special I Swear to God, he had a special light that flickered signalling the 15-minute mark of his show, because HBO was afraid of losing viewers before the 15-minute mark (ratings are counted in the first 15 minutes of a tv program) and you can noticeably see that he's seen the light when he starts his panda joke "Aren't pandas cunts?"
Lampshaded and subverted by Stephen Lynch in his Gynecology song.
Lynch: When your legs are open, I'll begin the gropin', but I fear I must be blunt / I would just as soon not go near your balloon knot, think that I'll stick to your... front. (Laughter) I would never say "cunt" to an audience... ever!
Christopher Titus — Norman Rockwell is Bleeding: (Talking about the time he fought with Erin over cheating on him when they broke up while they were dating) "And she took everything I threw at her man! She even took the 'C' word! I know! ...she's perfect!"
- In The Voice in My Head, he unapologetically used it to describe Erin after she attempted a Wounded Gazelle Gambit to get around California's no-fault divorce laws, although he elaborated that calling a woman a "cunt" is only appropriate to the .00001% who deserve it rightfully.
Kevin "Bloody" Wilson's "politicians" routine contains the following^note:
Paul Keating: I'm gonna change Australia altogether. For a start, we're now a kingdom
Her Majesty the Queen: Mr Keating, you're not a king.
Paul Keating: All right then, I'll call Australia an empire.
HMQ: Mr Keating, you're not an emperor.
Paul Keating: Well, I'll call Australia a principality.
HMQ: You're not a prince. So perhaps it would be a good idea if you continue to call it a country.

Comic Books

Warren Ellis's viciously accurate historical comic Crécy features this gem;
In England, the word "cunt" is punctuation.
Garth Ennis has no problem with the word, especially in The Authority: Kev and The Boys, where the first line of dialogue in the series is a protagonist saying, with regards to superheroes, "I’m gonna fucking have you. You cunts." Not to mention the "Kitchen Irish" arc of The Punisher MAX, which features an aging Irish gangster who throws the word around like it is confetti.
In one issue of Power Girl Satanna can be seen wearing a shirt that says "CU Next Tues" in a flashback.
Implied in the fourth issue of REBELS volume 2 when an imprisoned Amon Hakk protests that he is a citizen of the Khund Empire and is therefore legally entitled to trial by combat.
Guard 1: The what Empire...?
Guard 2: I'd repeat it, but my wife hates that word.
In Savage Dragon, two superwomen named Rapture and She-Dragon fought each other for reasons that aren't important here. Rapture manages to get as far as "You stupid cu -" before she is cut off mid-sentence.
There's a Y: The Last Man comic where the leader of the Amazons gets called "cunt" by a girl she's taken prisoner and calmly explains the origins of the word and claims its origins don't justify how it has come to be used as the most offensive swear in the English language... Then, after the girl calls her a bitch, she orders Hero to kill the girl.

Fan Works

BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant:
- Luna lets out a c-bomb when she starts insulting Ragna in Chapter 56, though it's cut short by switching to Ruby's POV with the rest of her team and Jubei.
- In Chapter 70, after Ruby shoots off his hat, Terumi similarly lets out a C-bomb that Ruby cuts off. After Ruby shoots him point-blank in the face, he lets out another, and unlike the previous ones, it isn't cut off.
The Bugger Anthology: The Doctor furiously calls Davros a cunt in "It's me, Davros", though the middle of the word is censored by a bleep in the audio and by asterisks in the subtitles.
In Cheating Death: Those That Lived, it's Johanna's favorite word. Her chapter consists of the seven times she called someone one throughout her life, from an annoying classmate to President Snow himself (twice!).
Crumbling Down: Marinette calls Lila this when talking about revealing the latter girl's true nature, much to the surprise of her class.
Don't Say Goodbye, Farewell: Jarkko Mäkinen, a Finnish character, tells Kanril Eleya while attacking an Orion fleet to "focus on that helvetin huora,^note let me deal with the little vitut!"^note"cunts", referring to some corvettes 'Vittu' is considered a relatively mild profanity in Finnish.
In Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons, this is how Deus refers to all mares to the point of being his catchphrase. It's even the last word he says (in a robotic monotone) due to his lower jaw being split open before he accidentally dies in an explosion. He later gets his brain hooked up to a tank, though.
In Half Life: Side Story: Gaiden: HUNT DOWN FREE MAN (a Half-Life: Full Life Consequences-esque retelling of the infamous Hunt Down the Freeman), in part 2, after the cloon mans daghter (sic) is killed by Amnad, and Moint Pan gets framed for it, the cloon man gets really mad about it.
"YOU KILL DAUUHTE? MOINT PAN YOU ARE MOINT CUNT!"
Used in Hellsing Ultimate Abridged.
- When asked what it is like to sell out everyone he knew for his own sake, the captain who secured Rip's carrier admitted to feeling like one of these. Rip Van Winkle proceeds to check his privilege.
- Zorin screams the word while Seras was gunning down her zeppelin, and for dispelling her illusion.
  "You Cunt Touch This."
- A young Seras tells the orphanage head where she'd like to stab his mother. And when telling him that she'd rather have his mother's than being adopted.
- Anderson calls Maxwell this when asked to explain why he's leaving him to die, and also when telling Heinkel to ignore Maxwell's orders. Heinkel gets back by using his own words when she and the Iscariot support him against Alucard's legions, which impresses Alucard with its utter sass.
  Anderson: ...That is the only time you get to call me any kind o' cunt!
  Alucard: She is sassy as fuck! Holy shit, I like her!
Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus:
- The street cleaners of the Palimpsest Car hate Casimira a lot. One street-cleaner points this out by stating how much Casimira should suffer and, as shown below, the first letter of each stressed-out word (which is also in the chapter itself) spells out...
Freckles: That bitch just comes in and undos the barrier meant to protect us. And she never realizes that she is a terrible host who has eluded karma for so long.
- When Tomie learns what Goh's parents did to separate Goh and Chloe from one another over an accident, she is not happy to learn that they despise the girl who is going through her own personal hell on the Infinity Train. She starts imitating their spiteful words in the hypothetical situation if Goh got on the Train and ends it by having "them" call Chloe the c-word, only to be cut off by Goh gasping in horror.
My Immortal: Professor Trevolry dismisses Ebony by saying "OK you can go now, see ya cunt."
The Night Unfurls: Though she doesn't say it all the time, Sanakan is fond of using this word to describe anyone who is a Jerkass. In particular, she calls Grishom "a flabby old cunt" during a meeting in the council chamber. The narration described this phrase as something that is on everyone's minds at the moment.
In the authorized Rambo fanfiction Rambo: Year One, Colletta's nickname is revealed to be "Greasy Cunt" on account of his thick mustache.
Triptych Continuum: The previous name of "Canterlot Unicorns Need Equal Treatment", described in Luna's Lottery Lunacy as "the largest, best-organized, well-funded, and most delusional group of self-promoting racists on the continent." They were originally named "Canterlot Unicorns Negating Traditional Swears", but for some reason, decided that name wasn't working out.
In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds A Live: Kira calls Akiza a bimbo during an important duel and the audience reacts in horror as if they just said the "C-dash-dash-dash" word.

Film — Animation

Sausage Party has a few of these.
- Early in the film, Carl tells Frank that Brenda is a "fucking cunt"
- Later in the film during Sammy and Lavash's first scene. Sammy calls Lavash a "meshuggener cunt".
- Sammy gives us the final instance at the end of the movie when the food products find out they're just cartoons. He describes Edward Norton's name as a "stupid cunt name".
- Also Douche's package says "Country fresh".

Film — Live-Action

24-Hour Party People introduces Joy Division with a scene where Ian Curtis repeatedly calls Tony Wilson a cunt.
Used to refer to Jim in 28 Days Later.
In 50/50 (2011), when Kyle catches Rachel cheating on Adam, he refers to her as a cunt, and his date angrily walks off on him. He later says "I think I used too much profanity" when describing how the date went.
Amadeus has the word "cunt" yelled audibly when Schikaneder confronts Mozart after discovering he's been writing a requiem instead of the vaudeville he had assigned him. Even in the PG-rated theatrical version.
Schikaneder: Look, you little cunt, do you know how many people I've hired?
Used in a startling way in American Beauty:
Playground girl: You were only in Seventeen once, and you looked fat! So stop acting like you're goddamn Christy Turlington!
Angela: Cunt! I am so sick of people taking their insecurities out on me.
An American Werewolf in London: David attempts to get himself arrested by saying various forms of slander in front of a policeman.
David: QUEEN ELIZABETH IS A MAN! PRINCE CHARLES IS A FAGGOT! WINSTON CHURCHILL WAS FULL OF SHIT! SHAKESPEARE'S FRENCH! FUCK! SHIT! CUNT! SHIT!
In The Avengers, Loki uses a more archaic term, but with a similar weight. The phrase "mewling quim" has since become a Memetic Mutation, which can cause problems for those who repeat it without understanding its full meaning.
Being John Malkovich uses it twice in close succession.
"Sorry about the cunt at reception."
Black Christmas (1974) opens with Billy giving the sorority house an obscene phone call, which does include use of the C-word. One of the actresses recalls being asked if the audio track was re-dubbed by someone who couldn't believe a film in the '70s got away with using the word.
Ryan Reynolds in Blade: Trinity: "You cock-juggling thundercunt!"
Bones and All: Sully is a friendly but creepy fellow eater who follows Maren around and offers to be her companion. Obviously getting a Dirty Old Man vibe from him, Maren turns him down. In response, he launches into a vulgar tirade that includes calling Maren a cunt, instantly revealing that she made the right decision to avoid him.
This gets Kristen Wiig's character fired from her job in Bridesmaids.
Tossed about so many times in Closer that its two female stars took to using affectionately with each other in order to lessen their discomfort. Oddly, neither of their characters uses it in regard to each other. It's said by one man to another who has slept with his wife, and by the same man to a woman, asking, "What does your cunt taste like?
Cloud Atlas's fourth chapter is full of swearing, but Dermot Hoggins managed to get the film a 15 rating with this trope (to quote the back of the DVD, "contains strong language, once very strong").^note
Crank: "Do I look like I've got 'CUNT' written on my forehead?" Since the film has had scrawled words appearing everywhere throughout, the word immediately appears on his forehead.
The spoof Dance Flick has an implied use, where the dance teacher Ms. Cameltoé (Amy Sedaris) introduces herself:
Ms. Cameltoé: Now, I'm sure most of you have heard I have a huge cunt—*cough*, excuse me, country music collection.
The Departed:
Oliver Queenan: Do you know what we do here? My section?
Billy Costigan: Sir, yes, sir. I have an idea...
Dignam: [interrupting] Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's say you have no idea and leave it at that, okay? No idea. Zip. None. If you had an idea of what we do, we would not be good at what we do, now would we? We would be cunts. Are you calling us cunts?
Oliver Queenan: Staff Sergeant Dignam has a style of his own. I'm afraid we all have to get used to it.
In District 9, which drops Cluster F Bombs all over the place due to most of its dialogue being improvised, has the word "cunt" used twice, both by The Dragon Koobus, and both of which are used to refer to prawns he is persecuting.
In The Exorcist, when Regan is possessed by a demon, she swears a lot and uses this word among the vast range of swear words that she has. One of her lines says: "Do you know what she did, your cunting daughter?"
Flypaper: At one point, an English robber uses the word and is told by one of the Americans that "we don't use that word over here".
The Gentlemen: Used around 23 times by multiple characters, in very colorful ways. The most prominent probably being the whole exchange between Coach and Ernie over whether one of the other Toddlers calling Ernie a "black cunt" qualifies as racist.
Ernie: The fact that I'm black has got nothing to do with the fact that I'm a cunt.
Coach: He didn't say black people are cunts, he was being specific to you. One's got nothing to do with the other.
Al Pacino hurls it not once, but twice, towards Kevin Spacey in a tirade from Glengarry Glen Ross.
In Gone Girl, Nick calls Amy this and slams her against the wall when he's hit his breaking point after she says that their future child will end up resenting him for being so weak and cowardly. It doesn't faze her for a second.
Nick: You fucking cunt!
Amy, calmly: I'm the cunt you married.
Mel Gibson is officially the first person to ever drop a C-bomb in a PG-rated film (unsurprising, as it was the 1990 film adaptation of Hamlet). The line in question was the Trope Namer ("Do you think I meant Country Matters?").
In The Hangover 2, during the bachelor "brunch", Phil calls Stu's ex-girlfriend Melissa "a cunt". This resulted in Phil getting dirty looks from the other customers. Later, the transsexual woman Stu has drunk sex with calmly states while revealing her true nature: "This is Bangkok, not Bangcunt." The TV broadcast will change the line to "Bangkitty".
Helter Skelter - Lilico uses the word in a sexual sense (in Japanese as well, by the way) to berate her assistant Michiko to remind her of the time she traded Sex for Services:
Lilico: Don't act all high and dry just because you licked my cunt.
Inverted in Hot Fuzz, when a Swear Jar is shown. Each swear is given various rates, while some letters are replaced by Symbol Swearing. Except the word with the highest rate, Cunt. In the extra features, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost are on a promotional tour for the film. They're about to do a TV interview.
Wright: What words can we say on American TV?
Frost: Cunt. (Beat) Shit-cunt. (degrades into Cluster F-Bomb)
In Bruges gives us this gem:
Ken: Harry, you're a cunt. You've always been a cunt, and you'll always be a cunt. And the only way you're gonna change is you're gonna become an even bigger cunt. Maybe have some more cunt kids.
Harry: Leave my kids fucking out of it! What have they done?! You fucking retract that bit about my cunt fucking kids!
Ken: I retract that bit about your cunt fucking kids.
Harry: Insulting my fucking kids! That's going overboard, mate!
Ken: I retracted it didn't I? (Beat) Still leaves you a cunt, though.
Harry: Yeah I fucking got that!
Ingrid Goes West makes sure the audience has no illusions about Ingrid's sanity and kindness when it introduces our hero while she's screaming the word at a bride on her wedding day.
In Inside Man, said to a conniving Madeleine White (Jodie Foster), "You're a magnificent cunt." She seemingly takes it as a compliment.
In In the Loop, Malcolm Tucker delivers what might well be the most intelligent use of profanity in cinema history to US Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Linton Barwick. Doubles as Precision F-Strike:
Malcolm Tucker: You know, I've come across a lot of psychos, but none as fucking boring as you! I mean, you are a real boring fuck! Sorry. Sorry, I know you disapprove of swearing, so I'll sort that: you are a boring F-star-star...CUNT.
Kick-Ass: Said by Hit-Girl to a room full of criminals ("OK, you cunts, let's see what you can do now!"). Given she was 12 years old, Moral Guardians everywhere rioted. The actress once stated that she asked her mother for permission to say the word.
Kill Bill Volume Two:
- Bill uses it at the end, when, mortally wounded at her hands, he confesses to the Bride: "No, you're a great person. You're my favorite person. But every now and then, you can be a real cunt."
- In the TV broadcast, humorously, the last word is altered to "sore-head."
- It's also used in Volume One by Buck, the scumbag rapist orderly, in telling his latest "customer" about the Bride's spitting tendencies, unaware that she's just come out of her coma, just a few minutes before both of them get what's coming to them in a big way.
- Also in Volume One, the Bride mentions that she can still "see the faces of the cunts that did this to [her], and the dicks responsible"
Gay Perry in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: "He called her a... Well, a bad name. (Beat) 'Cunt'."
This anecdote about Dafne Keen's on-set antics during the filming of Logan in an interview of Hugh Jackman by Empire brings us this gem:
"In one intense scene, as Jackman recalled to us, Logan loses his temper at Laura. “I just yelled, ‘SHUT THE FUCK UP!’” Jackman says. “At the end of 40 minutes of this, I went up to Maria, Dafne’s mum, and I said, ‘Maria, I've got an 11-year-old and I’m just really sorry.’ Maria said, ‘Aw, don’t worry, she just called you a cunt. In Spanish.’”
The Love Guru: Responding to a complaint that another character can't face something, the title character says "What is it you can't face?" Now say it again in an Indian accent: "What is it, you cuntface?" This was used in a lot of advertising material.
Memento: Natalie finally gets Leonard to snap and punch her when she refers to his dead wife with the word.
In Monster Mash (1995), Count Dracula introduces his wife: "She's a count, too, but she spells it differently."
In the British film Nil By Mouth, Ray Winstone's character cannot go more than three or four sentences without referring to someone else as a cunt.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: When asked what he thinks of Nurse Ratched, McMurphy's response is "She's kind of a cunt."
In P2, the antagonist, demonstrating just how insane he is, decides that the best time to use this insult is when the woman he's been terrorizing all night is walking away with his taser after cuffing him to a wrecked car that's leaking gasoline. Predictably, this is the final straw that provokes her to use the taser to ignite the gasoline.
There's a semi-affectionate female-to-male usage early in the Australian horror film Primal. Then Mel, the female in question, teases Anja for her ^noteapparently uncommon where they're from aversion to the word, trying to get her to say it. And indeed, "Cunt" ends up being the film's last line of dialogue, said as a Bond One-Liner by Anja after killing Mel, who had caught The Virus, become a monster, and murdered or infected everyone else.
In the Pusher film series, there's a particularly odious pimp and drug dealer named "Kurt the Cunt". This was the actor's real nickname. Director Nicolas Winding Refn met him at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting while doing research for the film and decided to Cast the Expert.
The only subtitled Russian line in the entirety of Red Sparrow (the rest of the film uses Translation Convention apart from an untranslated greeting) is when SVR Hungarian Station Chief Volontov refers to a female mole he's working as a "stupid cunt".
In a female-insulting-a-male example, Amber Sweet of Repo! The Genetic Opera calls her brother Luigi this during the song "Mark It Up" (the song also features a slight cluster F-bomb in the opening). "I don't take lip from a cunt!"
From Return of The Streetfighter, after Terry silences Gentoku Ryo as part of a two-person hit:
Pin Boke: This cunt's had it, eh?
Scary Movie 5: Jody sees the words "whore", "bitch" and "slut" written on the bathroom mirrors (in a parody of Black Swan), and catches Heather in the act as she's still writing "cun-".
Ed from Shaun of the Dead uses the affectionate version, but it's very jarring^noteoutside of the UK, perhaps and used to illustrate what an obnoxious oaf he is.
Ed: Can I get any of you cunts a drink?
The Silence of the Lambs: Clarice's first visit to Hannibal Lecter is made even more unpleasant when one of the other patients snarls "I can smell your cunt!" at her. She then repeats those exact words to Hannibal when prompted.
In Sisters, Amy Poehler's character remarks that her mother sounds weird cursing, to which her mother responds "Too fucking bad, I am cuntingly disappointed in you!"
Snakes on a Plane: "Your mother's cunt smells like carpet cleaner."
Subverted in The Snapper. Dessie is telling a joke down the pub in this vein:
Dessie: What's hard and hairy on the outside, soft and moist on the inside, starts with a "c", ends in a "t" and has a "u" and an "n" in the middle. A cu-cu-cu-coconut!
Snatch. has one to show the resident London Gangster, Brick Top, is Sophisticated as Hell: "Do you know what Nemesis means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by a 'orrible cunt. Me."
In Spectre, as M confronts C (who has been revealed to be working for the nefarious titular organization). C sneeringly suggests that M stands for "moron" as he tries to shoot him, only to realize that the gun is empty. M responds in kind as he reveals that he has the clip, saying, "And now I know what "C" stands for. (Beat) Careless." While he uses a very benign word, the pause leaves no doubt as to what M was really getting at.
In Spy, Agent Ford (Jason Statham) is told to not use this word due to complaints from the HR department. He states that it means something completely different back from where he's from, to which another agent retorts that in the US, it means vagina.
John, the protagonist of Ted, dislikes the word so much that it hurts his ears.
In Tyson, Mike uses this word during a fight with his girlfriend, who then proceeds to denounce him on national TV in the very next scene. Don King notes while watching the TV footage that "You must have called her the C-word."
In Veronica Guerin, as she arrives at the home of The Irish Mob chief to question him, he screams this repeatedly while beating her in the face, causing her to flee.
Violet & Daisy: The rival hitmen who Violet encounters call her a cunt among other things.
In The Way of the Gun, Ryan Philippe delivers this line that made it onto the list '100 Greatest Movie Insults':
"Shut that cunt's mouth or I'll come over there and fuck-start her head!"
In The Way, Way Back, Allison Janney's character combines this with Fun with Acronyms when she complains about one family, "They called me a 'see-you-next-Tuesday'. To my face."
One of Withnail and I's most quotable lines:
"Monty, you terrible CUNT!"
The World's End has three uses, all of which are spoken by Manchild protagonist Gary King, and, as with similar character Ed in Shaun of the Dead (part of the same Thematic Series), are used to illustrate his immaturity.
- When he greets his long-lost friends for the pub crawl:
  Look at these cunts!
- When he notices that the "King Gary" he carved into a piece of wood says "King Gay":
  Well, some cunt rubbed off the R!
- And, of course, his argument with the Network:
  Get back in your rocket and fuck off back to Legoland, you cunts!

Jokes

Q: What do you call a female clone?
A: A clunt.
Q: What four-letter word refers to a female and ends in "unt"?
A: "Aunt"
Q: What is the difference between a tribe of pygmies and a girl's track team?
A: The pygmies are a group of cunning runts.
Q: What's the difference between the circus and a line of Playboy bunnies?
A: The circus is a cunning array of stunts.

Literature

The Alice Network: Both the elder Eve and occasionally René or Violette use the c-word, along with other vulgar words. This is one of the words that has the most impact on the more innocent (and American) Charlie.
Anita de Monte Laughs Last: Jack Martin calls his deceased wife's sister "that mousy cunt" for having little to say in front of him yet having a lot to say in depositions about his verbal abuse, bad temper, and getting frightened calls from Anita in the middle of the night.
In Ian McEwan's novel Atonement (and the film adaptation), Robbie uses the word twice in a short, obscene love letter that is accidentally delivered to Cecilia, the object of his affection. One thing leads to another, and in the end, it doesn't turn out well for either of them... One of the tracks on the film's soundtrack makes a subtle reference to it — the track's name: "Cee, You And Tea". Cecilia at least finds it Actually Pretty Funny.
Robbie: [The original letter] was more formal. And less...
Cecilia: Anatomical?
Pops up in The Canterbury Tales, where it's spelled "queynte". An old Anglo-Saxon word.
In the Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Slow Empire, Fitz, for reasons, is being kind of a jerk in one chapter. When his bandmates agree to Bowdlerise a song title to "Rondelation in the Key of C" (the previous title was "Pint Drunk", considered unacceptable for its reference to "illicit ethanol abuse"), he remarks that they're "something in the key of C".
In The Dolorous Adventure Of Brother Banenose, Norbert the false swineherd uses the word at Fairuza a few times, usually after she's done him some grievous harm.
Gone Girl has the word "cunt" used multiple times in only one conversation, when Amy admits to being a borderline psychopath for the sake of her relationship with Nick. It also doubles as N-Word Privileges given that a woman is the one who says it. And thanks to the film adaptation, this becomes memetic.
The Good-Morrow, by 17th-century metaphysical poet John Donne:
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then,
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?
Journey to Chaos: Shadow Dengel almost says this in regards to the Mother Dragon but Eric cuts him off with a spear. Note that Shadow Dengel also called her a "shame" and a "slut" but Eric was able to ignore those.
Its inclusion in Lady Chatterley's Lover was a major issue in the Penguin Books obscenity trial of 1963. A much more recent BBC play about the trial included an uncensored reading of the passages in question. Post-watershed, naturally.
In Anthony Horowitz's novel Magpie Murders, Alan Conway named his detective "Atticus Pünd" because it is an anagram of "a stupid cunt," showing his feelings toward the entire mystery genre. This is also the motive for Conway's murder.
In Robert Anton Wilson's Masks of the Illuminati, a repressed man is repeatedly mocked by otherworldly spirits—one of their favourite jibes:
See you when tea is hot!
- This is also a homage to the fact Finnegans Wake author James Joyce is a main character; Joyce rejoiced in word-plagues like this.
This is just one of the many profanities thrown around throughout the Miriam Black series.
Ashley: You are one crafty little cunt, aren't you?
Miriam: Nice. You go down on your mother with that mouth?
Oona Out of Order: Unstuck in Time Oona calls Francesca, Edward's restaurant consultant, a "pretentious cunt" after finding out in 2003 that the suspicions she had about Edward and Francesca in 2004 were accurate.
Reign of the Seven Spellblades: An unusual example that was added by the English translator as a Woolseyism due to the series taking place in a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to England, though the English translation is in US English. The translator renders an insult leveled at Miligan by her defeated opponent Deschamps in volume 10 as "What a cunt." The original Japanese wording was あばずれおんな abazure onna, literally "tiger-woman"—roughly meaning "minx", "tease", or "bitch" in context.
In the Smith and Jones book based on the 1980s British comedy series, there's a mock front page of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in the style of a modern British tabloid, which includes a correction notice apologizing for the misspelling of King Cnut's name and assuring readers that the editor responsible has been fired. "Stupid cnut."
In George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, the word is occasionally dropped. Most notably, Asha is attacked in a skirmish by a clansman who shouts the word every time he strikes at her until he eventually pummels her into unconsciousness. He later finds her as a prisoner of war and apologizes for his insulting language, though not for trying to kill her. While a prisoner, she's repeatedly degraded by Suggs, a particularly vile knight, who likes throwing the word around. Asha remarks, "It was odd how men like Suggs used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued."
Pretty much a Berserk Button for Stephanie Plum.
Andrew Marvell takes advantage of the archaic spelling "queynte" to pun on "quaint" in "To His Coy Mistress" ("...then worms shall try/That long-preserved virginity,/And your quaint honor turn to dust...").
In Touch, we get this from Caleb, a specially-bred Child Soldier who has just gained a means of escaping from his life of enslavement, after his female boss addresses him as "Thirteen."
Caleb: ...Caleb.
Leanne: What?
(Caleb begins to destroy his Restraining Bolt)
Caleb: My name’s Caleb. You soulless cunt.
Near the end of Vampirocracy, Leon uses it in his typical Cluster F-Bomb. Justified in that this was a truly extreme situation in which his usual standard of cursing was inadequate.
More than once, characters in Worst. Person. Ever. lampshade how Raymond Gunt's surname oh so easily rhymes with a certain swear.
In his essay "You Can't Kill The Rooster", David Sedaris contrasts his foul-mouthed brother Paul with his father by noting that the latter was known to kill a joke with his unwillingness to cuss. "A woman I know who's quite blunt/ Had a bear trap installed in her... oh, you know. It's a base, vernacular word for the vagina."

Live-Action TV

30 Rock:
- An episode appropriately titled "The C Word" centered around Liz being called this and freaking out. The word was never actually spoken, but a supporting character played by Rachel Dratch screamed "Runt!" whenever it was about to be spoken. It Makes Sense in Context.
- Averted in a future episode, in which Kenneth says to Liz, "You're acting like a real C-word right now! That's right — a Cranky Sue!"
Arrested Development:
- We have Lindsay and Tobias' argument which is interrupted by their daughter, Maeby's sudden arrival:
  Lindsay: That's my point, you— [notices Maeby] ...handsome cowboy, you.
  Tobias: Oh, great. And now you're mocking me!? You selfish cun— [also notices Maeby] —try-music-loving lady!
- In addition, the name of the family yacht was the Seaward. It's not pronounced to rhyme with "steward".
  Michael: Get rid of the Seaward.
  Lucille: I will leave when I'm good and ready.
- Of course, Gob's new yacht is actually called The C-Word. Come on!
The BBC had to be astonishingly careful when discussing the word on the Oxford English Dictionary Word Hunt show Balderdash And Piffle, including Content Warnings both before and during the show. (It aired pre-Watershed.) It sought out the etymology of various words. One episode explored 'cunt' in some depth.
Better Things: Sam and Max get into an argument in Season 4 that culminates with them calling each other cunts (first genuinely, then from amusement).
The Boys (2019): "Cunt" is basically Billy Butcher's go-to insult, though it can also be a compliment depending on context (not that the latter comes up much). In "The Innocents", Hughie Campbell finally calls him out on it.
Hughie: You know, you're always calling people "cunts" or "twats," but I just... I never really got how that's an insult? They're flexible, take a pounding, and they're the reason behind, like, 98% of my life decisions.
Butcher: (smirks) You're a good cunt.
Brotherhood: In the series finale, when Michael is on the run after trying, and failing, to kill Nozzoli, he and Freddie stops by Kath's house, and Freddie warns Kath Michael knows about her and Colin - when Kath denies it, Freddie yells at her, "Don't be a dumb fuckin' cunt! This is your last warning!"
British comedian Will Smith (not the Hollywood actor) hosted a documentary called The C Word: How We Came to Swear By It.
Showtime's Californication has a scene where an obnoxious party attendant calls Karen a cunt and even presses his luck with her in front of Hank Moody (Catch You Next Tuesday). Hank then casually walks up to the man and in the words of Les Grossman, punches him in the face really f'in hard.
Subverted in the Community episode "Beginner Pottery":
Pierce: (referring to Shirley) Well, I guess now we know what the C in Captain stands for ...
(everyone gasps)
Pierce: ... crabapple!
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has a great, subtle one in "Jap Battle":
Audra: You wanna get salty like the Dead Sea, word? Then call off the suit or you're dead, C-word.
There's an episode of CSI where the B-plot involves the victim being killed in a case of "road rage" after striking back at the driver who used "that word." The word is, of course, muted in the flashback depicting the incident. As Catherine and Sara are the ones going over the case, they don't use it themselves; Sara just says, "I hate that word."
Curb Your Enthusiasm:
- Larry David's use of it during a poker game causes an effeminate acquaintance to have a slow-motion nervous breakdown. Made all the funnier when David later mentions in retrospect, he "should've said "pussy".
- Larry gets in trouble when he submits an obituary for his wife's aunt and the paper misprints a line, "Devoted sister, beloved cunt."
- Marty Funkhauser's joke he tells Jerry Seinfeld: "P.S. Your cunt is in the sink"
- Susie in "The Grand Opening": "Fuck you, you car wash cunt! I had a dental appointment!"
Dead Like Me has Delores Herbig using the "see you next Tuesday" variety.
Copious usage in Deadwood.
- Noteworthy, in that the first use of this word in the show is within ten minutes of the very first episode, and by a woman, at that.
  Calamity Jane: It's only WILD BILL HICKOCK you got stranded here in the muck! Y'ignorant fuckin' cunts.
Dexter:
- "An Inconvenient Lie." Dexter has a serial rapist car salesman bound on his table; the killer's trying to buy time by picking through Dexter's mind, eventually calling his girlfriend, Rita, a cunt. Dexter, who claims to be completely emotionless, responds by driving a knife into the guy's chest with great force. "DON'T! (Stab) ...talk that way about my girlfriend."
- In season 4 Arthur loves this, using it against his wife, his daughter, and a random barfly.
- Season 3, Debra to Yuki: "You're really a cunt, aren't you?", or something along those lines.
"Dirty" Den on Eastenders once failed to sneak the word it when the actor left rather too long a pause in the middle of addressing a PC as "constable" - there's a fine art in getting the insult noticeable but not blatant. Try it at home, kids!
In An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder, while speaking in London, Kevin talks about the difference between saying the C-word in England (Right on, mate!), and saying it in America (Ugh. Cunt?).
In the series Firefly, Joss Whedon predated his addition of the word "quim" to the movie The Avengers, when he had the rogue police Womack utter the line "You are an ugly-looking little quim, you know that?" to a male postal worker.
The first recorded instance of the C-word on live British TV (or the whole world for that matter) was on ITV's The Frost Programme on 7 November 1970, when future magazine publisher Felix Dennis let one slip. Here's the uncut video. There was the mother of all Moral Guardians-shit-storms after this, which led to live broadcasts being required to have a 15-second delay. One Conservative Member of Parliament suggested in the Commons that the offender be hanged.
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee uses the "C-Word Privileges" a woman host guarantees often.
- A segment had Seattle councilwomen who were targeted for denying to give harbor terrain for a new arena being referred as the "Seattle SeaWards" (the blooper reel has one of the woman saying the word out loud).
- Also, one of Hillary Clinton's instructions by PBS before a debate is "don't be c*nty" ("Oh, that's the same thing TBS told me before we taped this one! What is 'canty'?")
- A commercial does a Bait-and-Switch ("Sam, most people think you're unfit to talk about America due to being a C-word. Canadian.").
- One tweet called Samantha a "thunder cunt"... and the show even sells shirts with that written.
- In a Precision F-Strike, Samantha told to Ivanka Trump "do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless cunt!" All hell broke loose.
- This was both slyly and pointedly referred to in a The Late Show with Stephen Colbert sequence in which Colbert blasted the barbaric policy of Border Patrol separating children from their parents.
"If we let this continue, we are...a feckless country"
The Game of Thrones universe may as well be called "Game of Cunts", considering how widespread the use of it is in Westeros.
- ''Game of Thrones':
  - One of our early signs that Joffrey Baratheon is in fact pure evil is when he uses this term to refer to Arya Stark.
  - This is probably Sandor Clegane's favourite word.
  - Bronn isn't a terribly bad guy (Only in It for the Money at least) but he makes his opinion of Joffery quite clear in "Garden of Bones":
    Bronn: There's no cure for being a cunt.
  - Yara Greyjoy unleashes an awesome Cluster C-Bomb as she verbally bitchslaps her dumbass brother Theon in front of all his troops:
    Yara: Are you the dumbest cunt alive?
  - A brigand Sandor is in the middle of killing uses this as his last words. And that's after Sandor gave him a chance at picking a better choice than "Fuck you".
    Sandor: You're shit at dying, you know that?
  - Arya and (once again) Sandor exchange opinions on the naming of weapons, which gets alluded to some seasons later when Olenna Tyrell reveals to Jamie she was the principal actor in Joffrey's assassination.
    Arya: Lots of people name their swords.
    Sandor: Lots of cunts.
  - Jaime declares he's willing to go to war with Robert over his sister and snarks that the subsequent ballad can be called "The War for Cersei's Cunt." Coincidentally, this is also the first time Cersei is named on-screen and she is suitably unimpressed.
  - Jaime also refers to Grand Maester Pycelle as "that grey, sunken cunt."
  - Renly uses it in "The Wolf and the Lion" when discussing the Lannisters with Loras.
    Renly: You have to give it to the Lannisters. They may be the most pompous, ponderous cunts the gods have ever suffered to walk the world, but they do have an outrageous amount of money.
  - Tyrion in regards to his father in "Fire and Blood".
  - Locke uses it to describe Catelyn in "Walk of Punishment".
  - Captain Mero asks Daenerys to show her C-word to see if it's worth fighting for. Grey Worm is so offended that he offers to slice his tongue.
  - Arya's opinion on the waif girl who attacks her in "High Sparrow".
  - Smalljon's eloquent opinion of Roose Bolton.
  - When Jaime meets with Olenna before offering to kill her quickly with poison, she asks what the name of Jaime's sword at his hip is, noting that it originally belonged to the late Joffrey. He replies that it's "Widow's Wail". Olenna's response?
    Olenna: He really was a cunt, wasn't he?
- House of the Dragon:
  - Daemon Targaryen's favorite insult, which he often uses for the Hightowers, which he very much despises for having his brother King Viserys maintain him at a distance, especially Otto. Then there's his answer to Otto's demands to surrender and accept Aegon as king.
    Daemon: I would rather feed my sons to the dragons, than have them carry spears and cups for your drunken, usurper cunt of a king.
  - Rhaenyra Targaryen mentions calling her midwife a cunt whilst giving birth.
  - Ser Criston Cole, still bitter ten years after Rhaenyra rejected his proposal, calls her a "spoiled cunt" in conversation with Alicent. The queen is slightly taken aback by the vehemence of the statement.
The Handmaid's Tale has Janine calling Mrs. Putnam a cunt, despite Offred's warnings to Janine not to act up. The offense isn't the word, it's that talking back or disrespecting the Wives can get Janine killed or sent to the Colonies. However, later on that season, Offred calls Mrs. Waterford exactly that to her face whilst she's delivering an epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
Have I Got News for You has made several oblique references to the word:
- In the week preceding one episode, an MP, Richard Graham, had referred to another person as a cunt (apparently while drunk) on his blog.
  Stuart Maconie: He called some Labour guy in his constituency... I can't say this word... the C-word.
  Ian: A Conservative?
  Paul: No, I believe he was referring to the four-letter version.
  Ian: Oh.
  Paul: Tory.
- Bob Monkhouse worked in two subtle references to the word. First, claiming that people somehow instinctively knew that he was from Kent, as he could always hear them muttering the word as he walked past them in the street, and then:
  Bob Monkhouse: I think Ian forgets that he is working in tandem with a man who was described by The Guardian as a cult.^note
House: Cameron, of all people, gets away with the "see you next Tuesday" variant, though It Makes Sense in Context—this is during Chase's attempts at courtship by saying he likes her once a week; the line's delivery didn't suggest the hidden meaning, but the euphemism is not hidden.
How I Met Your Mother:
- Word of God says this is the word Narrator Ted changes to "Grinch" when talking to his kids in the episode, "How Lily Stole Christmas."
- The same episode, introduces a recurring character named Clint. In certain fonts, poor kerning can cause an uppercase "L" and "I" to resemble a "U" thereby rendering "CLINT" indistinguishable from "CUNT." As this is Ted's mother's new boyfriend, you may draw your own conclusions.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia features no less than six uses of cunt in roughly thirty seconds in the episode Hero or Hate Crime. Dee, the sole female of the group, is the only one to find it offensive.
- Dee does use it herself later on, though; in "The Gang Gets Cursed," she gives her neighbor a sarcastic trophy reading "Cunt of the Year."
The Kenny Everett Show: One of Kenny Everett's recurring characters was an actress named 'Cupid Stunt'. Amusingly, that name was reportedly chosen after The BBC spotted and vetoed a less offensive spoonerism, Mary Hinge.
Kim's Convenience: Mr. Kim once misspells "discount" as "discunt" on one of the signs in the store (the word is covered in some way whenever it's in the camera shot but it's made obvious that's the exact spelling Mr. Kim used). A customer finds it hilarious, whereas Pastor Nina and Mrs. Kim are horrified. Mr. Kim doesn't realize what "cunt" is and is confused as to why a big deal is being made over what he thinks is a harmless spelling mistake, leading Pastor Nina to awkwardly explain the connotations behind the word.
In Life On Mars, Irish suspect O'Brien asks whether Gene Hunt is rhyming slang. What for is discreetly left out.
- Which makes for a great Brick Joke in episode 1.06 of Ashes to Ashes (2008), where a character demonstrates:
  Chas: His name's easy. Rhymes with my favorite word. In fact, we used to call him Hunt the-
Louis C.K.'s HBO sitcom Lucky Louie has this exchange come up in an argument about the existence of God:
Jerry: Well, of course, there's a God.
Rich: What proof is there of that?
Jerry: Well, what do you think made you, asshole?
Rich: The fuck does that mean?
Jerry: Where'd you come from?
Rich: My mother's cunt.
Jerry: Okay, well where'd she come from?
Rich: Her mother's cunt. And her mother's cunt before that. And it goes back like that from cunt to cunt to cunt to cunt all the way back until eventually, you get to that slimy fish with no legs.
Jerry: Okay, well where'd the fish come from?
Rich: His legless mother's cunt. You see, everything and everybody comes from their mother's cunt.
Jerry: Well, uh, with all these cunts, I mean, they had to come from somewhere. Well, where'd they come from?
Rich: I guess they all come from one big giant cunt.
Jerry: Yeah— and that's God!
- One episode involved the word more prominently when Louie and Kim have a fight, things get heated, and he calls her a cunt. Obviously, she shuts down and refuses to talk to him, and he ends up accidentally calling her a cunt again, twice, during his apology.
'Midsomer Murders'': In "The Killings at Badger's Drift", the way Dennis pronounces the word "Constable" leaves no doubt as to what he means.
Dennis: Oh! I see you've got a right cunt-stable there.
Nathan uses it relatively often in Misfits, frequently when he's chatting up a girl (his seduction techniques are notoriously terrible). The pilot episode also features this argument between two girls:
Alisha: Shut up you chav.
Kelly: If you call me a chav one more time, I'll kick you so hard in the cunt your mum will feel it.
- And the season 2 finale, when the boys are discussing what their super-hero names should be:
Nathan: *points at Simon* The Invisible Cunt!
Simon: Why am I the Invisible Cunt?
Nathan: You just are, man. Get used to it.
Monty Python:
- Monty Python's Flying Circus: There is a classic sketch about a man who pronounces all his 'C's as 'B's. At the end of the sketch, the other man suggests he try spelling these words with a 'K' instead, leading the first man to observe, "What a silly bunt." This actually got the BBC into a lot of trouble.
- It also managed to make its way into their farewell show, Monty Python Live (Mostly): One Down, Five to Go, during the second verse of "The Penis Song":
  Your honeypot, your hairy friend/But never call it cunt/Or we won't come back.
At a Mystery Science Theater 3000 convention, Trace Beaulieu almost referred to Kim Cattrall with the word, but caught himself halfway through. His censored version also showed up on an actual MST3K episode.
It'd barely be worth mentioning how New Kids averts this by dropping "kut" (Dutch for "cunt") left and right. The series is ripe with Precision F Strikes, and "kut" is a quite common word in Dutch. But the German dub averts this hilariously: "Kut" is not replaced with whatever German swear word would be more appropriate in that situation, if any. Nope. Instead, about every other time, it's translated to "Fotze" which is quite a strong swear word and normally only refers to women. Otherwise, it's translated to "Muschi" which isn't a swear word at all (or wasn't one before people started quoting New Kids), and which literally translates to "pussy" — not in the sense of "coward," but in the sense of both "vulva" and "cat."
In an episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! on Profanity, it's the only word even the anti-censorship commentators are hesitant to say. Most of them do, but radio host Mancow refuses, claiming his wife will kill him.
- On the other hand, there seems to be some implied use of it as immediately after the stream of the word "cunt" it cuts to a scene of the main opponent of the matter for the episode, a woman.
It shows up a few times in Queer as Folk, mostly fairly casually, but in one case, it was enough to end a friendship.
Emmett: Well I may be a silly faggot, but you know something, Mel? You're a Cunt.
HBO's Rome loves this word, frequently combining it with Roman blasphemy ("Juno's cunt!") Justified in that ancient Roman curses were almost entirely scatological and the equivalent of "cunt" ^note was one of the milder ones.
On RuPaul's Drag Race, the drag queens are encouraged to display their Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent.
Saturday Night Live had a sketch about music executives trying to get Cee-Lo Green's single "Fuck You" changed so it can air on TV (as "fuck," like "cunt," is one of the seven words you can't say on TV). One of the executives (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) calls a female censor a "...world-class Country Strong".
Sex and the City features prissy Charlotte using the euphemistic version (while having her friends try on bridesmaid dresses, she objects to Samantha's efforts to raise the hemline): "No! I don't want anyone to see your... see you next Tuesday
- Carrie, having never heard this euphemism before, takes a couple of seconds to piece it together, then sarcastically says "Ohhh, is that a Schoolhouse Rock! episode I MISSED?"
Skins:
- It has no qualms about the use of the word ("DON'T YOU DARE USE 'CUNT' AND 'OXFAM' IN THE SAME SENTENCE!"), but still couldn't resist the temptation to go with a Fun with Acronyms version at least once.
  Naomi: [walking away from Cook while giving him the finger] See you next time!
- And later that same episode, the show demonstrated that it still knows how to use the word to shock.
  Emily: Cook, any chance you could go and be a cunt over there?
The Sopranos:
- Season 2 has a scene where Tony applies it to Big Pussy's wife, causing Carmella to stop him mid-sentence and shut him up.
- Uncle Junior, a by-definition old geezer, breaks his hip in the shower and exclaims "YOUR SISTER'S CUNT!"
- In another case, Christopher gets to go on a movie set and suggests a curse word alternative to bitch — pucchiacha. When asked what it means, he simply deadpans: "Cunt."
Spartacus: Blood and Sand is not afraid to use this word as a part of being Darker and Edgier retelling of the story. In one episode, Lucretia uses it specifically to refer to a woman's genitals — in this case, Mira's.
"Tits, ass, and cunt appear to be in fine condition."
The Thick of It is full of Cluster F-Bombs, and the writers aren't afraid of Country Matters either. In one episode an eight-year-old girl is accidentally sent an email reading "Christ alive! What a cunt !!!" and Hilarity Ensues. In another episode, spin doctor Malcolm Tucker receives a birthday cake iced with "Happy Birthday C*nt", from the Prime Minister no less. And in a deleted scene:
Malcolm: Tucker's Law: If some cunt can fuck something up, that cunt will pick the worst possible time to fucking fuck it up because that cunt's a cunt! I've got that embroidered on a tea towel at home.
- Combined with Suddenly Shouting and Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon here for maximum effect:
  Malcolm: You breathe a word of this to anyone, you mincing fucking CUNT, and I will tear your fuckin' skin off, I will wear it to your mother's birthday party and I will rub your nuts up and down her leg whilst whistling Bohemian fuckin' Rhapsody, right?
- The film Spin-Off, In the Loop, turns the use of the word into an art form:
  Jamie MacDonald: "Well, if it isn't Humpty Numpty, sitting on top of a collapsing wall like some clueless... egg... CUNT."
  Malcolm Tucker: "Y'know, I've come across a lot of psychos, but none as fucking boring as you. I mean, you are a real boring fuck! ...Sorry, sorry, I know that you disapprove of swearing so I'll sort that out. You are a boring F-star-star-CUNT!"
- The actor who plays Tucker, Peter Capaldi, is known for being exceptionally good at delivering the C-word. In an ad for MacMillan Cancer Support he talked about cancer as "Not my usual Big C."
  - And, when the last two shows combined and Peter Capaldi met Skins...
    Mark: "Fuck off out of my house, you miserable Scottish cunt!"
- The whole series almost ends with the word:
  Stewart: You know, I've spent ten years detoxifying this party. It's been a bit like renovating an old, old house, yeah? You can take out a sexist beam here, a callous window there, replace the odd homophobic roof tile. But after a while you realise that this renovation is doomed. Because the foundations are built on what I can only describe as a solid bed of cunts.
A recurring segment on This Hour Has 22 Minutes is “Computer Corner”, in which Gunter Wilson teaches the audience about computers despite knowing virtually nothing about them. One sketch dealt with Instant Messaging and Gunter used several abbreviations including an unfortunate one for “See you next Tuesday.” The audience doesn’t see the abbreviation but the implication is clear.
In the pilot of True Blood, Denise Rattray, a trashy dealer of vampire blood, spews it out to the main character, who in turn drawls "That just proves how low-rent you really are".
- Debbie and Pam drop the C-bomb a couple of times too.
In Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Donna scratches "CUN" into Gaz's car as revenge for him having an affair with Janet. Gaz arrives before she can finish the word, and asks what a "cun" is.
United States of Tara: One of Tara's alters defaces one of the murals she had been working on with "Die Yuppie Cunt". When Marshall and Kate discuss which alter did it, they repeat the word. A lot.
Averted: Caprice Bourret used it live on daytime television while discussing The Vagina Monologues without any uproar at all.
- Similarly, Jane Fonda blurted out on The Today Show how she offered to do a monologue titled "Cunt" and nothing came of it... except for the guy on the seven-second delay likely having an aneurysm.
Will & Grace: Almost said by Karen, unsurprisingly:
Karen: (to Lorraine) Hit the road, you syphilitic toad.
Lyle: Karen, if there's one thing I will not tolerate, it's rhyming insults.
Lorraine: Sow.
Karen: Cow.
Lorraine: Runt.
Lyle: (to Karen, who is very clearly about to say something starting with "C") Stop it!
On one episode of Veep (appropriately titled "C**tgate") Selina spends a whole episode obsessed with finding the staffer who reportedly called her the C-word. Turns out it was everyone. (Except for her personal assistant Gary, who admits that he called Selina the C-word, but turns out that he thinks that the C-word is "crone".)
Played with in Veronica Mars, episode "Look Who's Stalking":
Kendall: Oh, well if it isn't Little Miss Teen Getaway. Your dad and I were just dealing with a little trouble.
Veronica: Like, trouble with a capital "T", that rhymes with "C", that stands for...
Keith: Veronica!
Veronica: I was gonna say "cute".
Vida: Lyn tells Emma to "tone down [her] cuntiness" when they reunite in their mother's apartment.
The Wire:
- There's a scene where its use causes Stringer Bell, a drug-dealing serial killer, to stop in his tracks and look shocked. The full line: "Oh fuck the meet! You harder to get at than my fat wife's cunt!"
- On a different occasion from the same show.
  McNulty: You know something? My ex-wife, the way she acts sometimes, the way she deals with shit... You would think a less enlightened man than myself, cruder man than myself, a man less sensitized to the qualities and charms and value of women, a man like that; not me, but a man like that: he just might call her a cunt.
  Greggs: You just called the mother of your children a cunt.
  McNulty: No, I did not call her that.
  Greggs: Yes you fucking did!
  McNulty: No, I did not! Let's just leave this, I've got some stuff to do.
Used (though censored in the TV broadcast) in the episode "Real Time" of Workaholics, the guys spend the first few minutes leaving angry voicemails to their boss, Alice. At the end of the episode, after trying and failing to destroy the voice-mails, they contemplate doing it again, and Adam says he has a great one, after thinking about it all day.
Adam: Hello, Alice? Uh, this is uh, Not-Adam. You are a cunt. You're a cunt! You're a dumb cunt."
You Me Her: The word cunt gets used and its uses are discussed multiple times in the series.

Music

Adam Ant's "Place in the Country"
All I thought I wanted was a front door
All I thought I wanted was a place in the country
Now I realize I wanted so much more
Some I love but you I adore
Against Me! in "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" (which also counts as N-Word Privileges):
You've got no cunt in your struts
You've got no hips to shake
Averted with Anal Cunt, obviously.
The Anti-Nowhere League, "So What" (later covered by Metallica):
I've [done something evil or disgusting] and I've [something else, etc]; so what, so what, you boring little cunt?
Averted with a song by the Asylum Street Spankers.
My cunt, my cunt,
My country calls to me,
Asshole, asshole,
A soldier I will be...
Last-Second Word Swap in the Emilie Autumn song "Miss Lucy Had Some Leeches": "Hell-o to the surgeon with scalpel old and blunt/ he'll tie you to the table and he'll mutilate your/ come, it's nearly teatime ..."
Azealia Banks made very liberal use of it in "212" (her breakout hit), and she also uses it with great frequency in the rest of her work. Half of it is an attempt to retake the word (which she has repeatedly stated is her intention), the other half comes from ballroom slang.
Behemoth: Used in the opening line of The Satanist, in case anyone had missed its Nay-Theist themes:
"I saw the Virgin's cunt spawning forth the Snake..."
Bob and Tom's "Camel Toe" never uses any of the vulgar terms, but provides an astoundingly Long List of all the euphemisms for this part of a woman's anatomy.
Used as part of a pun in Bo Burnham's I'm Bo, Yo showing that he's not afraid to be offensive and brash.
Go to a vagina orchard
Count 1-2-3
Spin that plant around
You've got a third world country.
- Third whirled cunt-tree.
Busta Rhymes and Pharrell Williams’ collaboration "Light Your Ass On Fire" has Busta slip in a sexual use describing a woman’s anatomy amidst the manic boasting about, well, one can only guess.
Canned Heat's Going Up The Country (where the water tastes like wine). Babe, don't you wanna go?
The unreleased Deadmau5 song Seeya Next Tuesday is this.
The Death! Death! Die! song "Kiss of Poseidon" has a series of PG-13 verses regarding women of rather indiscriminate affections, which each chorus is simply the repeated phrase "Cause you're a cunt! A stupid cunt! Such a stupid cunt! Yeah!"
The Doors' "Break on Through" features the lines "I found an island in your arms/Country in your eyes..."
Averted in The Exploited's famous protest song, "Maggie You Cunt", which respectfully disagrees with the socio-economic policies and legacy of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
This Fantastic Four filk where Sue Richards-nee-Storm redefines the phrase "country mile" thanks to her Fantastic elastic husband Reed.
In the Frightened Rabbit song "Poke", the singer laments the slow death of his relationship. He wonders if, instead, they should just rip off the band-aid and "kick its cunt in and watch as it dies from bleeding."
Guns N' Roses' Greatest Hits album includes a Precision F-Strike in "Since I Don't Have You" ("Yeah, we're fucked!"), but their Cover Version of the Dead Boys' "Ain't It Fun" has the radio version due to the line "Ain't it fun when you tell her she's just a cunt?". It also shows up in "Bad Obsession", with the verse "I call my mother/She's just a cunt now/Said I'm sick in the head".
Halestorm's "You Call Me a Bitch Like It's a Bad Thing" is a Cluster F-Bomb (besides two variations of the title line, the refrain includes an S-bomb), but still uses this to avoid the actual word. Instead, the first stanza ends with:
But you call me up and have the nerve to say
"See you next Tuesday"
Shooter Jennings (son of Waylon) titled his first album Put The 'O' Back In Country.
Kesha does something similar with "C U Next Tuesday".
In the UK, there's a punk rocker based in Basildon called Kunt and the Gang, who pretty much summons up this trope in a nutshell.
- In 2020, he formed a synth-group called "The Kunts", where every single song from his albums contains the word in lyrics and sometimes the song titles.
- His most well-known song is a tongue-in-cheek Take That! to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called Boris Johnson Is a Fucking Cunt, where all the song consists of is variations of the song title, which is said 36 times.
  - After the announcement of the Tier 4 coronavirus restrictions across London and parts of the South East of England in December 2020, the song surged in popularity and went on to reach No. 5 in the 2020 Christmas Music Charts that year.
  - And in November 2021, a follow-up song was made, titled "Boris Johnson Is STILL a Fucking Cunt", whose lyrics also consisted solely of variations of the title. Once again, the song made it to the Christmas charts at no. 5 that year.
  - Their 2022 Christmas single "Fuck the Tories" doesn't have any uses of the word, but the 59 uses of "Fuck" make up for it.
The song "In My Country" by the Lemon Sisters features a female singer entreating lonely sailors to come and visit her country. That is the nation in which she lives. For some reason, she keeps pausing in the middle of words.
The Lonely Island Just 2 Guyz
"Who invited Steve? That Steve is a cunt!"
- Also used in We Like Sportz, again in regards to Steve.
"I like my friend. He's a real guy's guy. He's not a loudmouth like that cunt-hole Steve!"
- These are used as Precision F-Strikes, as both songs are among the tamest the The Lonely Island has ever made.
In his song "Dr. Stephen", Stephen Lynch sings about being a gynecologist. After spending the entire song tap-dancing around this trope with [[Last Second Word Swa* K.T. Oslin's "Hey Bobby" opens with the lines "Hey Bobby, would you like to go for a ride/In the country with me?". Actually, she uses the term throughout the entire song. p last-second word swaps]] and euphemisms, he announces that he "could never say "cunt" to an audience".
Canadian comedy duo MacLean & MacLean released an LP called Take the "O" Out of Country. Behold the cover .
Metallica released a DVD entitled Cunning Stunts; much earlier, this was also the title of a Caravan album.
Canadian punk group Nomeansno's "No Fgnuikc" packs six instances of the line "All I see are cocks and cunts" into a breakneck 31 seconds.
Plastic Bertrand's Ça Plane Pour Moi became an international hit despite containing the line "comme un grand connard" ("like a massive cunt" in the sense of a disagreeable person). In the UK, television and radio bosses, unfamiliar with French, allowed the record to be played on radio and even invited Bertrand to sing it on a children's TV show.
The Police:
- One of the verses from "Rehumanize Yourself" is "Billy's joined the National Front/He was always a little runt/He's got his hand in the air with the other cunts/You've got to humanize yourself".
- The band members famously detested each other, to the point where Stewart Copeland wrote "FUCK OFF YOU CUNT" on his drums as a dig at Sting.
The Pretty Reckless in "Miss Nothing," where lead singer Taylor Momsen makes it easy to misconstrue her phrase using the word as "misconstrued":
I'm misused
Miss cunt strewed
"Blubber Boy" by Regurgitator might be the only song featuring the c-word ever to have charted in Australia or anywhere in the world. Nobody noticed the line "rub me on your cunt, I'll come back again" (likely because it's very easy to miss).
In the Sex Pistols song "Pretty Vacant", guess how Johhny Rotten pronounces the last syllable of the title?
- And Sid Vicious' version of Frank Sinatra's "My Way" changed the line, "My friend, I'll say it clear", to "You cunt, I'm not a queer".
Brutal Death Metal band Skinless has "Cuntaminated", which gets bonus points for Black Comedy Rape and Double Standard Rape: Female on Male. (to elaborate, it's about^note a woman with numerous STDs and generally bad hygiene forcing a man to perform cunnilingus by sitting on his face.
Spearmint end the song "Start Again" with this:
And I'm so sorry
To be so blunt
But that boy...
...is a cunt
Sum 41's song "A.N.I.C.", which stands for "Anna Nicole Is A Cunt." The full title? "Anna Nicole Is A Fucking Stupid Cunt."
TISM's song 'I might be a cunt, but I'm not a fucking cunt.' Amusingly, early in the song they promise, 'I might have screwed your sister, but I'll never screw your mum...' only to declare at the end, 'I mightn't tell the truth all the time, hey, but what's your mum's number?'
- "Australia the Lucky Cunt" is an EP by TISM.
The Toadies song "Velvet" repeats the line "You hurt me, you cunt!" three times in the second chorus, and the bridge begins with the word repeated three more times.
Tyler, the Creator's "She" was notably dense with this epithet, which some found to be very alarming.
- From "Transylvania": "And now the slut is under the fucking assumption / that I will be fucking and munching her muffin / cunt will be bleeding, but that’s not from the time signature of the month."
Ronnie Van Zant said it in a throwaway line during the live version of "Gimme Three Steps" found on One More from the Road (and also on Gold & Platinum).
Parodied in Kevin Bloody Wilson's song "You Can't Say Cunt In Canada".
Hinted at in the Worm Quartet song "Great Idea for a Song", a Break-Up Song where the singer complains about his ex's flaws and laments that he could come up with a catchy song if only her name rhymed with any of the insults he could think of. One line has the singer mentioned that he'd pay to change his ex's name to Shelly Hunt.
In his song "DadBod", Logic while talking about people who complain that since he became successful, he no longer raps about down-to-earth, "everyday" things.
They say that that boy done changed
He don't rap about his everyday life, he ain't the same
Goddamn, already had a hard life once
Am I supposed to recreate it every album for you cunts?

Podcasts

Of all the swearing in the Acquisitions Incorporated podcasts, only a single instance required a censorship bleep. This trope in action.
In several episodes of Point vs. Point, Gareth (who constantly spouts ignorant right-wing rhetoric) becomes so enraged by Barack Obama's daughter Malia that he calls her a cunt, for which he is always instantly reprimanded by Evan.
Lampshaded on the Unpopular Opinion podcast and other shows on the network, where host Adam Tod Brown added a "Cunt Ding-er" to celebrate each time the word is used by a co-host or guest. It was added in response to multiple occasions when guests would curse freely until they used the word, and then ask "if it was OK to swear" on the show. It is frequently abused by guests once they are aware of the joke.

Print Media

No doubt there has been any number of country matters spoken of in newspapers and magazines, but this one stands out by virtue of the personalities involved. In April 2011, Vanity Fair published an absolutely scathing review of the Paris bistro L'Ami Louis, by restaurant critic A.A. Gill. In the June issue, VF's "Letters" column printed an irate missive from a married couple, "R.J. Wagner and Jill St. John Wagner" of Los Angeles, CA, excoriating Gill for his negative review and saying that he was "truly a c-u-next-Tuesday" (making this example something of an aversion).

Pro Wrestling

'''C'''hicks '''U'''sing '''N'''asty '''T'''ricks, a tag team from WSU. You can also exchange T for tactics or any other ways around it up to and including yes, C U Next Tuesday. Annie Social has no problem with "nasty tricks" because she admits she and Kimber Lee do use them but also reminds people WSU stands for "Women Superstars Uncensored" and so welcomes anyone who really thinks they are cunts to just come out and say it.
In Progress Wrestling The most common chant Jimmy Havoc gets is "Jimmy Jimmy you're a cunt, Jimmy you're a cunt". Paul Robinson also gets this chant but Jimmy is replaced with Robbo
Becky Lynch called Alexa Bliss this subtly on Talking Smack.

Radio

British stand-up ensemble sketch shows delight in getting this sort of crap past the radar. Even back in the 1950s, Spike Milligan slipped this into The Goon Show:
Ned Seagoon: I'm a country member.
Willium: Oh yes. I remember.
More recently, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue came up with these alternative derivations of common words:
COUNTRYSIDE: The desire to kill Piers Morgan.
CONTROL: Jeremy Clarkson, Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan...
- Another joke on Clue was about a photo of the coalition government leadership of the time: Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron standing with Liberal Democrat Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, or as Jack Dee put it 'a conservative with a little c'.
Word-play show Just a Minute once saw Kenneth Williams go off on a long rant aimed at the genial National Treasure host, Nicholas Parsons:
They say you're a cult, Nicholas, and oh, yes, I'd agree. you're one of the biggest cults out! You're one of the largest cults to be found anywhere!
The language in Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall is as crude as you would want a soldier's memoir to be. What is surprising is that when Milligan's reading of the book is broadcast on the BBC it is abridged but uncensored and the C-word is left in (at least in April 2018 on BBC 4 Extra).

Tabletop Games

F.A.T.A.L. has no problem with the word. This would not, in itself, be too bad. It then starts throwing around phrases like "mouth-cunt", "cuntress", "cunt-pipe" (really), and the name "Cuntrina".
- Considering that this is the RPG "system" infamous for (among many, many other things) rape tables and a truly astounding level of misogyny, this sort of fades into the background noise.
There was a sourcebook for the superhero Tabletop Game Silver Age Sentinels literally called Country Matters. It was a roster book of female supers.

Theater

The Ugandans in The Book of Mormon are quite fond of the word, and "Hasa Diga Eebowai" abounds with it.
Mafala: When God fucks you in the butt
Ugandans: Hasa diga eebowai!
Mafala: Fuck God right back in his cunt!
- Later in the song, we get this:
  Ugandans: If you don't like what we say/try living here a couple days./Watch all your friends and family die./Hasa diga eebowai! Fuck you!/Hasa diga eebowai!/Fuck you God in the ass, mouth, and cunt-a,/Fuck you God in the ass, mouth, and cunt-a,/Fuck you God in the ass, mouth, and cunt-a,/Fuck you in the eye!
  - The song ends with a great exclamation of "Fuck you, God! In the cunt!"
The Boys in the Band. It becomes a Running Gag.
Michael: Çunt! That's French, with a cedilla.
- Later:
  Michael: Donald, you are a real card-carrying cunt!^note
William Shakespeare created the Trope Namer in Hamlet when Hamlet is feigning "insanity" around Ophelia. It should be pointed out that the Double Entendre is absolutely intentional: Hamlet continues by invoking another bit of Elizabethan slang for the "nothing" between a woman's legs:
Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord.
Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
Ophelia: What is, my lord?
H* Shakespeare also has a bilingual example in Henry V, in which the French-speaking Princess Katherine, getting an English lesson from her lady-in-waiting, is both horrified and amused to discover that the English words "foot" and "gown" (which Katherine and her lady mispronounce as "coun") resemble the French words for "fuck" and "cunt."amlet: Nothing.
Mrs. Lintott uses the word to describe the headmaster in The History Boys. It's notable in a show that flings other curse words around a lot, this is the only time the word is used.
There's another example by Shakespeare in Othello. In Act 3 Scene 3, Iago tries to insinuate that Desdemona is not as pure as she seems. He uses the phrase "country disposition", alluding to both the stereotype of the open and passionate Venetian woman and, well...you know.
In Road, Skin Lad knows there's about to be a fight when the skinheads start calling him 'cunty'.
Rock N Roll: After Lenka blatantly flirts with Eleanor's husband in front of her, Eleanor (who is dying from cancer) very bluntly warns her off, which includes the play's only use of the word "cunt". Apparently Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance will be shoved there if she doesn't take the hint. It's even more powerful because the conversation pivots without warning, and the text specifies that the line should be delivered in a pleasant tone.
Eleanor: [pleasantly] And, Lenka, don't try to shag my husband till I'm dead, or I'll stick the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid cunt, there's a dear.
There's an instance in Twelfth Night where Malvolio finds a forged note by Sir Toby that appears to have come from the Countess and proclaims it authentic based on the handwriting: "See how she makes her Cs, her U, an her Ts, and thus makes her Ps."
- This quote allowed the BBC to get away with saying it very prolifically when they aired the scene at 6:40 pm on a Saturday night.
Some feminists have attempted to reclaim the word; there's a piece in The Vagina Monologues called (what else?) Reclaiming Cunt. (seriously, it culminates in loud, repeated exclamations of CUNT!!! It is pretty awesome to behold), and there's Inga Muscio's book Cunt: A Declaration of Independence. Hasn't quite been reclaimed on the level that "queer" has been for gays, but it's still something to note.

Toys

Heavily implied in the original Monster High line. In one of her diaries, the Australian Lagoona mentions how, when she first arrived at Monster High, she said a word that was considered perfectly normal back home; however, saying it at MH got her in so much trouble that her dad had to explain things to the principal.
Transformers: Character names change often due to losing trademarks on names, but Slag, the triceratops Dinobot, is the notable exception, with slag having become a slur for "slut" in the UK. Transformers: Animated got around this along with the absence of the Dinobot Snarl leaving his name to be taken by the show's version of Slag, even lampshaded in an episode. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron would feature all of the Dinobots however, and thus renamed him Slug, which has stuck for subsequent appearances of the character.

Video Games

In Amnesia: The Dark Descent's Justine DLC, Basile calls Justine (aka you, the player), a cunt, among other unsavory names. Considering what she did to him his anger is understandable.
The Brute Splicers in BioShock 2 are about as civilized as they look, language and all.
Both Vico and the narration text throw this around a lot in A Dance with Rogues.
Hinted at a couple of times in Dragon Age II; the way Isabela asks Aveline if Donnic "satisfied the demands of your Qun" is quite...suggestive...and then there's the following gem:
Varric: So I told him, 'This is a kingdom, which makes you a king. But it's also a country.' What can I say, I like my interrogations to be a two-way street.
Friday Night Funkin': Before his last song "Stress", Sergeant John Captain calls Boyfriend a cunt, then calls both him and Girlfriend cunts for good measure.
Grand Theft Auto:
- In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, this word is dropped several times throughout the game. Considering the other offensive words that are used and the overall cringe worthy subject matter of the game, it's not surprising. However, it's thrown in for attentive radio listeners in Grand Theft Auto III: (Head Radio music station is hosted by none other than DJ Michael Hunt, who states his name pretty frequently.
  Michael Hunt: You can call me Mike.
- And let's not forget this from Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories: Citizens United Negating Technology for Life and People's Safety.
- In Grand Theft Auto V, Trevor Philips of drops a cluster c-bomb while stomping Johnny K. to death. Trevor's partner-in-crime Michael De Santa later drops an atomic c-bomb to end a rant about how chaotic his life had become when Trevor reentered his life.
  Michael De Santa: Forgive me, you ignorant fuck, but sarcasm is all I've fucking got! Sarcasm, and a room full of you cunts!
HellSign occasionally features the word "cunt" in dialogs. The in-game lexicon translates it as "good sir". HellSign is set in Australia and developed by an Australian studio.
The Last of Us Part II: While Ellie is interrogating Nora for information on Abby's whereabouts, Nora mocks Joel's death, saying he was a bitch who deserved what he got. Ellie calls her a "Fucking cunt".
Played for laughs in Mutant Football League, which is otherwise not shy about profanity in the slightest. Bricks will occasionally mishear the word "punt" and react with horror at his co-host using such language. Which makes it even funnier when Grim actually does say "cunt" and no one bats an eye.
Grim: "Looks like they're lining up to punt."
Bricks: "Aaah! You can't say that word on the radio, Grim!"
In PAYDAY 2, Jimmy uses the word very frequently.
Jimmy: KILLED THE FUCKING COWARD CUNT SNIPER!
In the Pokémon games starting from Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, the player was allowed to create phrases inside the game using a library of pre-provided words, which included the names of Pokemon and attacks. Upon the transition to Heart Gold and Soul Silver, the prefab wordlist had the word Snatch (referring to that Dark-type attack that lets you steal an opponent's buffing moves and use them yourself) removed, as it was found that players with female player characters would use that word rudely when making slogans and catchphrases. And yet, in Pokémon X and Y, if you give your female character a name that starts with the letter C, your friends start giving you nickname options like Lady C, Li'l C, and C-kins. Someone at Nintendo dropped the ball to let your friendly rivals call your protag a cunt with regularity.
In [PROTOTYPE 2], a mission involves Heller being informed of a Blackwatch Tank Commander who made some inflammatory remarks about his deceased wife and calls Dana Mercer a "pasty hacker cunt". Dana's objection is at being called "pasty".
Rockstar Games' own Red Dead Redemption uses the word three times, two of which are in fairly quick succession.
Irish: What's the word for 'cunt' in Spanish?
In Siren 2, there is the strategy puzzle game Kunitoris, or Country Tetris. Given the naming convention of Tetris spinoffs, like Hatris and Welltris...
The 3DS and Wii U versions of Super Smash Bros. has the announcer pronounce the name Duck Hunt veeery slowly and with careful enunciation in order to avert this trope.
- It's not quite careful enough, though. The drawing-out of the syllables makes it sound more like he's yelling "DUH KHUNT".

Visual Novels

In the English localization of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Miu Iruma, a girl with a penchant for profanity and giving people nicknames, once uses "Cunt Fu" for Tenko Chabashira.

Web Animation

Broken Saints has no qualms with swearing, but it's worth pointing out that only Mars uses this word.
In Camp Camp, Neil calls the Flower Scouts "ignorant fucking cunts" when he learns that they're blatantly sexist (they kicked Nikki out for being too much of a tomboy and believe that men should be tough and rugged).
C Students played with this trope. This was played straight, then lampshaded, and then averted in the most glorious way possible.
Penny: Why are you so obsessed with that girl? She's a total C-U-N-T.
Kevin: *mutters under his breath while counting on his fingers* c...u...n...OH, what is with Americans being allergic to that word? If someone's a cunt, just call them a cunt! *Beat* A-and no, she's not a cunt!
In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Vegeta calls Android 18 one during their fight (visibly stunning everyone present), which leads to her breaking his arm.
- The scene is revisited in Kai Abridged 3:
  Vegeta: Hey c(bleep)t!
  Trunks: Whoa dad!
  Vegeta: What? She's a c(bleep)t! A c(bleep)ty c(bleep)t! Whatcha gonna do it about it you big ol' c(bleep)t?! Gonna c(bleep)t all over me with your c(bleep)ty face and your c(bleep)t boots and your VAGINA?!
- In Dragon ShortZ she rubs additional salt in the wound, delivering a "The Reason You Suck" Speech regarding his failure at parenting when he comes to her angrily demanding a rematch and polishes it off by agreeing to "maybe" fight him again "someday" when he "stop(s) acting like a massive cunt."
In a parody of the 1984 PBS logo, an angry P-Head shows up, causing the regular P-Head to say, "You smelly-ass cunt! What are you doing here?!" and run off screaming.
PONY.MOV: In "PARTY.MOV", Pinkie Pie wears a shirt with the word "cunt" clearly written on it.
Zero Punctuation
- Whenever Yahtzee brings up his contract, it is represented by the Escapist logo holding up a piece of paper reading "Contract: say 'cunt' a lot." A Cluster C-Bomb usually follows.
- He breaks out a little burst of Rhymes on a Dime for a certain someone who claims that anyone who can't mod computer files to fix design flaws in games has no right to play them:
"This review is dedicated to you, anonymous forum poster, because you're a cunt
What are you? You're a cunt, yes you are.
You live in a cunty cottage,
And you drive a cunty car."

Webcomics

At one point in the surrealist comic 5ideways, Emerald is testing out their surroundings. "Hm. Biting into an apple results in a rain of cunts. Hardly useful."
Blade Bunny expresses a hope that Bunny will get her Money, then giggles and tries to work out other words that rhyme with Bunny. One starts with C and leaves her laughing helplessly. See "Coney" in Real Life examples below.
A near use of it occurs in Gunnerkrigg Court by a schoolmate of Annie's mother in a flashback before he gets punched out by Eglamore.
Jessica to Carrie in this strip of Loserz.
Penelope in this strip of Questionable Content.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal managed to provide the image for Spoonerism by having a pet-store employee attempt calling a puppy for sale a "capable runt", and failing... badly.
A Something*Positive strip had this as the next-to-last line of hostility Mike crosses with regards to PeeJee. He even stammers when he says it. The last line? Physical threats. Which of course results in pain from her many friends.
In Swordcat Princess, Arayna uses the C-word after "racist" as she grumbles epithets at her sister Kathryn for making her retract her vampire wings. Kathryn returns the favor upon recognizing Arayna's voice under the mask that "disguises" her as one of the bad guys.
Hunter Ravenwood of Suicide for Hire freely drops a Cluster F-Bomb just about every other strip, but only drops the C-bomb for emphasis, e.g. when "encouraging" (at gunpoint) a group protesting against gay marriage to disperse.
Unsounded: Vampire talks using Flowery Elizabethan English reflecting his three-century age, but when talking with loyal Aldish soldiers—whom he despises—he says:
Ye statist cunts cannot understand how your tyranny harms the heart.
A Straw Loser "carnist" in the infamous webcomic Vegan Artbook is called "Cuntons". Seriously.
- Said character is a Take That! at someone whom Yerdian doesn't like, and her name is a deliberate combination of said individual's surname with "cunt."

Web Original

Froge from Froghand, despite supposedly being Canadian, a place where "cunt" is still a foul word, isn't afraid to use the word whenever he pleases, such as in the "Secure Comms for the Cool Cunny" article:
So don't ironically text your friend porn of an underaged cat (there's a sentence that lawyers aren't prepared to deal with), because your friend is probably a leaky cunt (and not the good kind of leaky cunt, I can't believe it's not an underaged cat!)
SCP Foundation: The word makes an appearance in a stream of Angrish in the SCP 022-J joke article regarding the phenomenon that people think titanium is a super-strong metal (and the frothing rage towards these people by those who know it's not). The researcher lets loose with this word when he's beating a security guard with a computer keyboard after snapping while editing the report:
Researcher Eisenberg: I'LL GIVE YOU TITANIUM CAGES I'LL GIVE YOU TITANIUM TITS YOU CUNTWHACKED ASSCHEEKS
SF Debris thoroughly avoids using this word, the only time he censors his profanity.
[describing Dr. Pulaski] You're a complete cun-temptable person!

Web Videos

Another Dead Hero: James Carlson has used the word multiple times throughout his reviews, including one in his Demon Knight review aimed at YouTube for Copyright Claims for one of his reviews (Though he didn't actually say it, it was an end credit note), then there was the time in his "Double Switch" review where he couldn't give credit to Spencer Pratt and Hedi Montag, who he referred to as "Famewhore cunts". Then there's a more straight and harsher example during his No One Lives review.
Flynn: [responding to Heather saying he killed the one good person] Yeah, well, what does that make you?
James: A cunt. [just simply stares into the camera]
The AuZZie Gamer often calls the guards in Hitman and Splinter Cell: Conviction this.
Bennett the Sage: In Suave's review of Love Hina, Again?!, Naru is trying to think why the events of the OVA are happening.
Suave: Because you are a cunt. (Calmly drinks martini)
A Couple Of Cunts In The Countryside, obviously.
Epic Rap Battles of History:
- In the second "Vader vs Hitler" installment, Darth Vader never attempts to use the word; he even pauses while rapping to find other words with similar rhyme.
Vader: I'm a certified Sith Lord, you runt! So suck on deez—!
[beat]
Stormtrooper: [comes in] Uh... deez what, sir?
Vader: Deez robot nuts!
[rap resumes]
- Meanwhile, in the third installment, Hitler didn't hesitate to say "Screw you, you big black cunt!" to Vader right at the beginning of his rap.
This is pretty much the only profanity they bleep out on Eurogamer. Even Aoife, who once yelled "Assholes! Assholes! Fuck off! Fuck off! Fuck off!" at a mob of Bloodborne enemies, cuts herself off before saying it:
Aoife: Fucking - I almost said the bad word.
Johnny: [takes a deep breath] C[Sound-Effect Bleep]
Aoife: That one.
Very much averted with Game Grumps, seen as Jon drops it in the first few minutes of the first episode.
While on the topic of Hitler, in some Hitler Rants, thanks to the power of Mondegreen, Mohnke insults Hitler by calling him a... well... cunt.
On the Jimquisition, almost all instances of the word cunt are interrupted by the theme song of Skeleton Warriors.
The Midnight Screenings review of Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas has Dave refer to an unlikable secondary character as "Cunty McMomface", much to the amusement of that episode's co-hosts.
MF217 in his Let's Play videos from 2021 onward often heavily averts this trope, and he mentions in his Freezeezy Peak video for his Banjo-Kazooie Let's Play that he wants to make a video compilation editing every time he's said the word in the entirety of 2021 into a single video by the end of the year. He's also doing this mostly because his videos aren't monetized and he doesn't want to go back to his old days of having monetized videos because of how stupidly strict the guidelines for monetized videos have become in recent years ruining his overall freedom of what games he could feature on his channel.
As per current Australian language customs, Mr Doodleburger uses the word in nearly every line in several of his Gag Dub videos.
My Little Pony: Totally Legit Recap: The Equestria Girls version of Fluttershy describes Sunset Shimmer summarily by calling her a cunt.
Philosophy Tube: In Is Philosophy Just White Guys J3rk!ng Off? the characters make multiple insinuations that Kant was a cunt for his racism without ever actually saying the word. Mostly by Abigail taking some creative liberty with how the characters pronounce Kant's name.
In RedLetterMedia's Mr. Plinkett review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Plinkett analyzes the "Star Wars Ring Theory" and ponders several times whether the plot of the films can be described as a circle, calling it a "big C." Whenever he says "big C," the screen shows an infamous clip of Jennifer Lawrence being rude to a reporter at a press conference, implying another kind of "big C.". Otherwise, Plinkett himself has said it completely uncensored a few times, once to refer to Jar Jar, once to refer to a dogs vagina, and another to refer to a character from Titanic.
In Doug Walker's Adventure Time vlogs, his friend Jori got called it for her hatred of a character, and he and Jason alluded to it afterwards (with Jori banned from being on-screen)
Jason: Careful, you may be called the c-word.
Doug: (laughs) Nice. (big "innocent" smile) I may be called candy! That's a c-word, right?
Jason: (beleaguered) Yes. Yes. Good Doug.
As a British-born critic who spent a long time living in Australia, Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation frequently uses the word to in his reviews, perhaps most famously at the end of his review of Quantum Conundrum when calling out an obnoxious Steam forum poster who claimed that anyone who didn't know how to edit Unreal .ini files to fix the game's issues or have a top-end PC had no business playing PC games.
This review is dedicated to you, anonymous forums poster, because you're a cunt. What are you? You're a cunt, yes you are. You live in a cunty cottage and you drive a cunty car.

Western Animation

Roger in American Dad! uses this when Francine orders him off the phone. "I'll call you later, the boss is being a real—Catch U Next Tuesday!"
- That lady is a real C-word. Hey, we're all guys here; I'll just say it: "Cuckoohead."
In the Family Guy special "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story", Quagmire asks Brian about the sign on his new RV:
Brian: "Quagmire's Cross-Country Tour." Uh, isn't there an "o" in "country?"
Quagmire: Nope!
- An early episode had Brian call Meg a "whiny, little runt", Lois gasps in shock and Brian assures her that he said runt.
- One episode has the poster for the school lesbians' club printed with "C U Next Tuesday!"
- Also, this DVD-only scene in "Road to Europe":
  Woman: Ah, Winston. Drunk again, I see.
  Churchill: Yeah, well you're a cunt.
- And another from one of the Frank Sinatra episodes:
  Brian: We love the work of Allen Funt...
  Stewie: Or a nicely shaven leg!
- "The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou" episode features this exchange:
  Brian: I don't know. Although your sunburn was pretty bad, I suppose it could be... the C-Word.
  Stewie: What the hell does that have to do with anything?!
  Brian: No, cancer.
  Stewie: Oh, oh, I-I thought you meant... it's not important. (almost sarcastically) Oh no, cancer!
- In one early episode, someone on Wheel of Fortune has to solve a puzzle: GO TUCK YOURSELF IN. Peter remarks that this one was even tougher than MY HAIRY AUNT.
- A Deleted Scene from "Yug Ylimaf" shows Lois singing "If You're Happy and You Know It", with Stewie saying, in order, "Fuck you," "Eat shit," and "Dumb cunt," during the clapping parts.
Archer:
Cheryl: My last name isn't Gimble like on my W-4. It's Tunt.
Archer: Tum again? (Beat) What, nothing?
- Played with heavily in Season 5, when Cheryl becomes a country music singer. Guess how the cast starts pronouncing it.
- It's subtle, but all the Tunts have first names that start with C: Cheryl, Cecil, Cornelius. All, like, five Cornelii. And Cecil's ship (as well as the two-part episode that features it) is called the "Sea Tunt."
- There's also this exchange in Season 6:
  Krieger: Archer won't risk his relationship with Lana for a previous conquest, especially a prostitute. For a man like him, it's all about the hunt.
  Pam: Well they're all gonna have—
  Krieger: I said hunt!
In Bob's Burgers episode "Poops... I Didn't do it Again", Louise says "See you next Tuesday" to her parents when discussing overnight vacation at the Aquarium. Whether she knew what that implied or not, Bob did and told her not to say that again.
Bojack Horseman:
- Used as a Did Not Do the Bloody Research gag in the episode "Still Broken". During a heated argument among the cast of Bojack's old show, one actress who's since spent decades living in England drops one in, only for everyone else to recoil. She hastily explains that it's not as serious there.
- Implied with one of the hate letters Diane receives in "Hank After Dark".
  Diane: (reading the letter) "You can't. You stupid, ugly can't."
  Mr. Peanutbutter: Honey, I don't think that says "can't."
While Drawn Together had no problem with saying nearly any other curse word, the show only uses cunt once. The movie, however, used it four other times (as the combined word, shitcunt.)
Harley Quinn (2019): Doctor Psycho calls Wonder Woman the C-word on national television, which shocks everybody, then calls Giganta the C-word on a talk show. He gets kicked out of the Legion of Doom (and the Junior League of Doomers) for it, with Lex Luthor saying the Legion does not condone his behavior. Later, it is revealed even Darkseid thinks Psycho using the c-word is in bad taste, referring to it as "a slur that even I dare not utter". In a meta example, this is another show that censors it despite making liberal use of "fuck" and "shit."
South Park:
- There's an episode where Wendy dumps Stan. Stan asks Jimmy (the stutterer) to tell her that's she "a continuing source of inspiration to [him]." Unfortunately, Jimmy ends up telling Wendy, "Stan says that you're a cont—... you're a cont—... Stan says you're a cont—cont—cont..."
  - Wendy's reply is, "Well, tell Stan to fuck off!", with the corresponding bleep.
  - Parker and Stone themselves said they couldn't believe Comedy Central let them get away with that one.
- "Balzac was a writer, he lived with Allen Funt / Mrs. Roberts didn't like him, but that's 'cause she's a / C[o]nt-aminated water can really make you sick..." ("Something You Can Do With Your Finger")
- In the episode "Clubhouses," Randy and Sharon Marsh get into an argument that reaches a climax when the former loudly shouts a bleeped word. Sharon is visibly outraged and says: "You just used the C-word!" A confused and somewhat surprised Randy replies: "I did?"
  - The HD version reveals what word Randy said: it was "bitch", not "cunt".
- Tiger Woods calls his wife this in "Sexual Healing", and it is not censored.
- Russell Crowe starts to call a woman this in "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer", but it's cut short.
- Hillary Clinton refers to Gerald Brovlovski (skankhunt42) as Mr. Kunt in "Oh, Jeez".
- "Cunt" is among the words Cartman uses during his literal swear-storm in Bigger, Longer, And Uncut.
- Santa Claus refers to the people of South Park as "you bunch of cunts" in "Bike Parade" after he is told that they kicked Mr. Hankey out of town because he Tweeted some inappropriate things.
- In "Turd Burglars", Harriet Biggle calls Sheila the c-word behind her back when they're having lunch at Café Monet with Linda Stotch and Laura Tucker, with all three of them distraught by Sheila refusing to share her feces for their own D.I.Y. fecal transplants so they can have the same health benefits as Sheila.
  Harriet: That cunt! I told you she'd say no!
In the Spongebob Squarepants episode "No Free Rides", SpongeBob tells Mrs. Puff "See you next Tuesday." Though he actually meant it.
In the Superjail! episode "Stingstress", Lord Stingray at one point remarks about the Mistress "Why, that see you next—".
In Tuca & Bertie, the bakery features a cross between a cruller and a bundt called the "crunt". The awkwardness of this name gets lampshaded by both title characters.

Real Life

Actress Dame Helen Mirren, who is English, experienced the difference between the UK and the US when she was first starting out in Hollywood. "My co-star Roy Scheider was joking around and said something to make me laugh. I did, and the director called Cut! As an amused throwaway, I turned to Roy and said, ’Oh Roy, you cunt!' The whole studio froze in horror.”
Mel Gibson during his profanity-ridden phone rants against his ex-wife dropped c-bombs like they were candy, among many, many other horrible insults.
"Did you know Stuart Adamson?" "He was a Big Country member." "Oh, I remember." This is derived from the original comment in Australian Federal Parliament by early 1970s Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in response to an angry outburst by a member of an opposing party (Country Party - now the Nationals half of the Liberal/National Coalition): "I'm a Country Member!" Gough Whitlam - "Oh, I remember".
In a particularly obnoxious possible example, University of Colorado football players have reportedly called teammate Katie Hnida a cunt while brutally hazing her. When CU president Betsy Hoffman was later called on the carpet to explain why the coach wasn't fired, she responded that "cunt", in Chaucer's times, was a term of endearment and perhaps that's what the players meant. Really.
When we had an Emperor, we were an Empire. When we had a King, we were a Kingdom. Now Margaret Thatcher is in office, and we have a country.
"Coney" (pronounced "cunny" in Britain) is an old word for "rabbit" that fell out of use because it sounded like "cunny," another version of "cunt." "Rabbit" is the main replacement, but it's obvious that "bunny" is a modified form of "coney." (In the same vein, "tidbit" used to be spelled and pronounced "titbit".)
Trying to talk about the place in England called "Scunthorpe" can prove difficult on message boards with censor software. Averted, as nobody would ever want to talk about Scunthorpe anyway. Scunthorpe was the Trope Namer for malfunctioning censor software - see the Scunthorpe Problem.
John F. Kennedy was hanging out with some friends and his wife when he mentioned that someone was a real Charlie Uncle Nan Tare. Jackie then asked what a Charlie Uncle Nan Tare was since she didn't understand he was using phonetics. No one wanted to answer.
The example in the lede to this article was taken directly from a court case said to have taken place in Manchester, England. When the judge asked the Canadian what he'd have done if his friend had called him a child molester instead, he replied that he wouldn't have been nearly as angry, because that wasn't anywhere near the insult that "cunt" was.
There was an inn called the "Flying Cunt" somewhere in Transylvania. The local feudal lord AND his entire court were regulars there.
The Japanese equivalent of "cunt" is "manko", and is similarly treated as one of the most vulgar words in the Japanese language. It's always bleeped if said on television, and if written down, it very often has the middle "n" character blanked out. You'll never be able to look at Mako the same way again.
- Yakimanka, a street in Moscow, is only one phoneme away from being Japanese for "roast cunt".
In Mandarin Chinese, the equivalent is "bī" (屄), and has about the same effect and usage, with one weird exception: "niú bī" (牛屄, sometimes with a different last character but with the same sound), usually abbreviated as "NB" on Chinese message boards, can mean "really fucking cool" when used to describe something, and either "badass" or "total dick" when describing a person, depending on whether you mean it positively or negatively. Why exactly this is unclear, as the phrase literally means "cow cunt" (牛 means "cow" or "cattle").
- This discussion was brought up between Quentin Tarantino and Conan O'Brien regarding Kill Bill. According to one of the Chinese production crew (Jiang Wen of Star Wars Rogue One fame), the size of the organ matters.
The Dutch equivalent of "cunt" is "kut", and is used quite regularly in the Dutch language, as said above. It is more of a prefix than that it's used alone though, and in some youngsters use to denote a female's external reproductive organs as well. Young children will be corrected, but everyone above the age of 15 will not be, and, although most don't use it in polite conversation, it is used quite a lot in informal speech.
- Confusingly to native-English speakers, there's also the Dutch word kont, which sounds even more like the infamous English C-word - but kont but refers to a different part of anatomy, that both men and women have: it is just a fairly mild word for a person's behind, comparatively even milder than "ass" in English - mostly akin to "butt".
- The Afrikaans equivalent is poes. In Dutch/Flemish this just means "cat", Which has led Dutch and Belgian visitors to South Africa into some interesting situations. Complimenting your hostess on her lovely pussy can raise eyebrows, even if you genuinely meant her feline pet.
German has two rough equivalents: "Möse", which is rude, and "Fotze", which is a thermonuclear bomb. Except, amusingly, in Bavarian dialect where it means "mouth". Never got diluted by swearing use since, as you know, Germans swear "Scheiße".
In Spain and Venezuela, the word "coño" is dropped left and right, and although the literal translation is "cunt" (as in "women's genitalia"), it seems not to be considered as such a horrible thing to say (in fact, it's one of the first swear words young kids learn and use without being punished). The word can be used as an exclamation of surprise ("¿¡Qué coño ha pasado!?" = "What the fuck happened!?"), joy ("¡coño, cuánto tiempo sin verte!" = "holy fuck, I haven't seen you in a long time!"), annoyance ("¿Qué coño quieres?" = "What the fuck do you want?"), and certain variations of the word can mean something different. For instance, the augmentative "coñazo" (it means "big cunt") can mean "boring, unbearably dull" ("¡Esto es un coñazo!" = "This is fucking boring!") or allude to an extremely strong or painful hit ("Me dí un coñazo con la puerta" = "I got hit fucking hard with the door"). On second thought, it would seem that "coño", in Spanish slang, is the equivalent of the English "fuck" (but is actually less vulgar).
- Upstaged by the Dominican Republic, where "coño" is basically a form of punctuation.
- Similarly, the word "concha", which is mainly used in Argentinian and Uruguayan dialects of Spanish, is a swear word that also means "cunt", but is considered a very mild and common swear word in the same way "coño" is. "Concha de la lora" (which is used to express frustration) is the arguably most common way it's used.
And now to classic Latin, the main source being satirist Martial. You must know that the dividing line between good and bad wasn't hetero and homo, but active and passive. Thus "cunnus" is laden with inferiority (and the correct way to throw a deadly insult on a Roman is saying he is performing oral on his partner). "vagina" isn't used even once by Martial! To add to generic biology failure, "vulva" refers to the uterus of the sow (a delicatesse just second to otter noses).
Used in the second line of the anthem of Bella Guerin Hall, a hall of residence at the University of Ballarat. Restrictions have been placed on when the song can be chanted, for obvious reasons.
Political protestors upset at reduction in public spending by the Coalition Government in Britain 2011 have been seen displaying placards decrying Cameron and Clegg for "putting the N in CUTS".
The Chicago Tribune once printed an article about the use of this word. Even though they carefully avoided the word itself, the article title, "You C*n't Say That" made it obvious enough that the entire section the article was printed in was pulled out at the last minute^note at great expense.
In regards to the example provided in the page description, Australians and New Zealanders of all ages and genders may use cunt not only as a term of affection ("He's a good cunt, that cunt") but as a designator ("Yeah, it was that cunt over there"), descriptor ("Oh, that fucking cunt, he's a deadshit"), group name ("Oi, you cunts, listen up!") or nickname ("G'day y'old cunt, howyagoin?"). This has also given rise to the curious saying that Australia is "Where you call your mates cunt, and some cunt mate." As an inversion, An Australian can pack enough venom into a single word, often "Mate", with vocal inflection alone, that it is exactly equivalent to saying "Cunt" (as an offensive term) in its place.
Similarly, a Glaswegian asking a friend to join them at the bar will likely say something like "Awright ya cunt, fancy comin' for a drink with that cunt Shug an' all they other cunts?".
Gropecunt Lane, which was Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
Averted in Russian, where the equivalent of the C-word (pizda/пизда), although by no means socially acceptable language, is not considered the most vulgar word to use. That dubious honour goes to a word for the male genitalia (khuy/хуй). You can also say "pizdaty" (cunty), which is an adjective meaning "awesome, excellent". There is also "pizdets", which means "fiasco, total mess". (The seeming lack of logic here is somewhat akin to how "fuck yeah" is a positive reaction to something, while the very similar "fuck me" is the opposite). Reversed in Poland, with exactly the same words, where the 'cunt' equivalent is again the worse word, while 'chujowy' (dick-ly) is a mildly offensive negative adjective, while phrases like 'tępy chuj' (dumb dick, literally blunt dick) can be either negative or affectionate, depending on the people and context (the latter heavily influences by an adult cartoon that thrives on swearing).
- Also, in Russian the phrase that literally can be translated as "to give (someone) a cunt" (дать пизды/dat' pizdy) means "to beat someone up". There's even a joke about this: "I'll give you a cunt! = I'll fucking beat you up!"(Я тебе пизды дам!) - "But you don't have one!" (Так у тебя ж её нет!).
Averted for the French word "con" which usually means dumbass with varying degrees of intensity depending on adjectives used (even Bart Simpson uses it in the dub). It's not polite but it is far from being the most offensive word as many French-speaking people don't know that it originally is a synonym for vagina (so when it is used in that context, it actually has the vulgar connotations of its English use). Alternately, for the "very unpleasant person" meaning of the english word, a pejorative suffix may be appended to form "connard(m)/connasse(f)", which is far more insulting than the base word.
In fulfilling its guiding purpose, Cockney Rhyming Slang has a completely innocuous way of saying it, Berk, which comes from Berkeley Hunt, rhyming with cunt. Now you know a way to say it without anyone knowing, providing no one around you speaks Cockney...
- Cockney has another inoffensive (indeed, somewhat affectionate) version; charlie, after some otherwise long-forgotten person called Charlie Hunt. This can also be a literal (still inoffensive) version.
- Rumor has it that, for some years after Sir Antony Blunt was exposed as a Soviet spy, Cockneys were in the habit of calling each other "a right Sir Antony."
- The phrase has since associated itself with the otherwise squeaky-clean and inoffensive singer James Blunt. James apparently winces but takes it philosophically.
- Another public figure who got the same treatment is Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt, with many people "accidentally" messing up his name in broadcast.
Jane Fonda was appearing in a benefit production of the above-mentioned The Vagina Monologues, and while being interviewed about it on Today, casually mentioned on live daytime TV the title of one of the pieces. Meredith Viera apologized on behalf of NBC, and it was censored for broadcast in later time zones. [1]
A still-common Western Australian urban legend claims that Curtin University of Technology was originally going to be called "Curtin University of New Technology". Given that its pre-university name was the Western Australian Institute of Technology, Fun with Acronyms was already something of a habit.
In what was subsequently referred to as a "prominent speech error", Radio 4 news presenter James Naughtie referred to Jeremy Hunt the Culture Secretary as Jeremy Cunt on a live broadcast, before completely losing it while desperately trying to disguise his laughter as a coughing fit.
- This has become almost an unintentional Running Gag in British broadcast media, with Nicky Campbell and Victoria Derbyshire both falling foul in 2019, as well as giving rise to another piece of rhyming slang (see above).
Some believe the word "squaw" to be this, in reality, it's just the Algonquin word for "young woman." It didn't take on demeaning connotations until the late nineteenth century, and now the mistaken etymology has made the word unacceptable in many circles.
In the north Wales town of Caernarfon, the word cont is freely used by younger residents in the town without intention to cause offence, its use not unlike mun in South Walian English or mate in Australian English. Seeing as Caernarfon punches above its weight in Welsh(-language) culture, - the town only has around nine thousand inhabitants but the vast majority of these use Welsh as their main language - this is very well known.
- One translation for "cunt" in Welsh is apparently ''corris'' ... which wouldn't please the inhabitants of a village in deepest Gwynedd.
“They said I hated Jimmy McCullough’s guts. What I really said is that he’s a nasty little cunt. There’s a big difference, you know.” – Geoff Britten, Wings drummer, claiming he was misquoted in Melody Maker (Taken from the book Bitch Bitch Bitch, compiled by David Wheeler and Mike Wrenn)
Many historians and linguists have speculated that, after the Norman conquest of England, the continental peerage rank of "count" was replaced with the Anglo-Saxon "earl"^note as the peerage rank above "baron" for just this reason. Notably, with the lack of any equivalent female term for "earl," the word used is "countess."
Association football (soccer) example: John Terry's much-publicized racism scandal involves him telling Anton Ferdinand (one of the opposing players) that the latter is a "fucking black cunt".
As of 2014, "cuntish, cunty, cunted, and cunting" have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. See Jezebel's article about it here.
Larry Flynt once learned the hard way that you can't call Sandra Day O'Connor a cunt in the presence of the whole SCOTUS and not get charged with contempt of court (bad enough that he had already just called the other eight SCOTUS judges "assholes" in the same breath).
Chinese scientists wrote a paper detailing their work with copper nanotubes which abbreviate to the chemical symbol for copper - Cu and Nano Tubes. The paper itself with its plethora of abbreviations is here
Amy Adams had to do a lot of cursing during one scene of The Fighter. She ran out of words, and David O Russell was off-camera throwing potential swears at her. Amy says that the C-word was the only one she refused to use.
When it came to designing coffee mugs for the University of North Texas, let's just say they really didn't think it through...
According to former employees, past editor of The Sun Kelvin Mackenzie was rather free with his use of this word.
This was part of an epic fake award prank on alt-right British commentator Katie Hopkins orchestrated by YouTuber Josh Pieters. As if a Twitter suspension wasn't humiliating enough, not only does she get the Campaign to Unite the Nation Trophy (no points for guessing what that's short for), she's given a nakedly hate-filled acceptance speech to read for all the world to watch. And this was all done to take advantage of both parties' freedom of speech and make a prominent alt-right figure look silly in the process.
On UK Celebrity Big Brother 2017, during her introduction video contestant Brandi Glanville said "My ex-husband is an actor, who married a cunt … ry music star, Leann Rimes, after they cheated on me together."
Donald Trump was once alleged to have called Speaker Nancy Pelosi a cunt in a letter to her towards the end of 2019. He also used the "See You Next Tuesday" euphemism when speaking to a lawyer representing E. Jean Carroll, a woman suing him for defamation after he allegedly sexually assaulted her.
The then-prince King Charles III reportedly referred to his son Prince Harry as being "cuntstruck" when the younger man opted out of attending an official event in order to spend time with then-girlfriend Meghan Markle. Harry himself, in his memoir Spare, when describing the vitriol aimed at her, mentions her being referred to with this word, among other slurs, though he refused to write it explicitly and instead called it "the c-word".

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