English
cuck
Cuck comes from Middle English cokewold ‘cuckold’.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500cokewold‘cuckold’
- English1500–presentcuckold
- Englishearliest quotation 1706cuck
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500cokewold‘cuckold’
- English1500–presentcuckold
- Englishearliest quotation 1706cuck
Earliest quotation: 1706, Edward Ward, Hudibras redivivus: “Not the Horn-Plague, but something worse, Had drove the…”
The story
The sense of weakling, race traitor, etc. apparently originated on 4chan in 2014 and migrated to Reddit soon after.
Every English word from Middle English cokewold
Today it means
noun A cuckold or cuckquean.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English cokewold / cuck