Definition of "cunt"

An' doesn't ter know? Cunt! It's thee down theer; an' what I get when I'm i'side thee, and what tha gets when I'm i'side thee; it's a' as it is, all on't.

1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, authorized British edition, London: Martin Secker […], published February 1932 (May 1932 printing)

Ah! This power-house of human misery and ecstasy, the cunt!

1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1138

Blind boys grope out of huge pies, deteriorated schizophrenics pop from a rubber cunt, boys with horrible skin diseases rise from a black pond (sluggish fish nibble yellow turds on the surface).

1962 , William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 80

I can smell your cunt.

1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Miggs (Stuart Rudin)

Then there is a drum roll, and I watch open-mouthed as she bends over and produces a string of red cloths from her femininity. "What better way to celebrate 10 years of Camberwell Arts Week than pulling 10 red handkerchiefs out of my cunt?" she asks.

2004 June 23, Leo Benedictus, “A bit of hanky-panky”, in The Guardian

I saw the Virgin's cunt spawning forth the snake

2014, Behemoth, Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel

The taxi driver wisnae amused. He looked a right cunt. Maist ay them do. The stamp-peyin self-employed ur truly the lowest form ay vermin oan god’s earth.

1994 , Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, page 5

Vinokur pulled the trigger a second and third time. "You're lying, you Polish cunt!" he screamed.

2007, Elazar Barkan, Elizabeth A. Cole, Kai Struve, Shared History, Divided Memory, page 287

He rails against political correctness and health and safety regulations, and earlier this summer was accused of calling Gordon Brown "a cunt" in unbroadcast comments to his Top Gear audience, whom he has also referred to as "oafs".

2009 November 12, Patrick Barkham, “Top Gear: Why We're Mad About the Boys”, in The Guardian

The lines were up past the frozen food now; people had to cut through to get what they wanted and there was much excuse-me-ing and pardon-me-ing. “This is going to be a cunt,” Norton said morosely, and I frowned a little.

1980, Stephen King, The Mist

Certain situations just cry out for it – keys breaking in the lock, not being able to find the starting point in a roll of sticky-tape, running out of bin-bags. The kind of everyday annoyances that Alanis Morissette would define as irony are actually cunts as far as I’m concerned.

2016 July 11, Rachel Braier, The Guardian

—Happy New Year, ya wee cunt! Franco wrapped his arm around Stevie’s head.

1994 , Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, page 41

Look at her like how can you not say cunt[,] she's cunt

2022 December 29, PeachyPlumz (on reddit), in "Symmetra is a ‘gay icon’?", Reddit

she's so CUNT ... like... how can i not say cunt???

2023 May 24, cutehammie (on reddit), in "Trans ally Azealia", r/popheadscirclejerk, Reddit