Definition of Cucking. Meaning of Cucking. Synonyms of Cucking

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Cucking. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Cucking and, of course, Cucking synonyms and on the right images related to the word Cucking.

Definition of Cucking

No result for Cucking. Showing similar results...

Cucking stool
Cucking stool Cuck"ing stool` (k?k"?ng st??l`). [Cf. AS. scealfingst[=o]l, a word of similar meaning, allied to scealfor a diver, mergus avis; or possibly from F. coquine a hussy, slut, jade, f. of coquin, OE. cokin, a rascal; or cf. Icel. k?ka to dung, k?kr dung, the name being given as to a disgracing or infamous punishment.] A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. --Sir. W. Scott.

Meaning of Cucking from wikipedia

- first appears in English literature in 1562, adding a female suffix to the cuck. A related word, first appearing in 1520, is wittol, which substitutes wit...
- relates that "ducking-stool" is a corruption of the term "cucking-stool". Whereas a cucking-stool could be and was used for humiliation with or without...
- up cuck in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cuck may refer to: Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle (CUCV) Cuck (film), a 2019 American film Cucking stool...
- relates that "ducking-stool" is a corruption of the term "cucking-stool". Whereas a cucking-stool could be and was used for humiliation with or without...
- Early Modern English dating back to AD 1562 and is composed of the terms cuck "someone whose partner is unfaithful" and quean "disre****ble woman". A cuckquean...
- Cuck is a 2019 American thriller film directed by Rob Lambert from a screenplay by Lambert and Joe Varkle. It stars Zachary Ray Sherman, Timothy V. Murphy...
- tailboards for the same reason. The word is also used as a name for the cucking stool and for a type of balancing scale used in medieval times to check...
- century, the bridge was used as a site for the ducking of scolds with a cucking stool. The bridge also featured in the traditional game of football held...
- in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket, castigatory, or cucking stool, which in the Saxon language signifies the scolding stool; though...
- "The Cucking Stool: A Torturous Tale of Medieval Misery". The Something Guy. Retrieved March 13, 2024. Kelly, Erin (March 15, 2023). "Cucking Stools:...