Cunt - male or female?

[Jack B]

Strange. I've heard women being called "cunts" like men plenty of times before.

Same, it's just an insult here, male or female.

[Logan]

I would imagine that all have seen this.

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I've heard it, rarely, here and there on three Continents. Though, not in mixed company. I do not recall ever having used it.

[Osweo]

Man I used to work with from Ayrshire used it more or less as a general pronoun. Rather like the Finnic languages, in this respect.

"See that cunt there? Yer steck it in this cunt, turn the cunt on, hold the cunt like this, put it in that cunt there and the cunt's off, yer cunt." - 'Chas', while demonstrating the use of a Kango.

[The Ripper]

In Finnish the corresponding word quite effortlessly transforms from (several) noun(s) to verb, from adjective to adverb, hell, it can even function as punctuation.

[o__o]

Usually it's an insult toward males

[Vasconcelos]

Usually it's an insult toward males

You win the necro trophy!

[Kazimiera]

Both male and female. But there are worse words in Afrikaans which you resort to when you run out of English. One of the worst probably being "mother's blood cunt". It doesn't have the same effect in English though.

[Germanicus]

Being an Englishman I would never direct the Cunt word to an English woman; In the world of men in which I come into contact with direct it to each other quite freely, it's not the word to men that is insulting, it is the severity or act that directs it too you that is the insult..

[Methmatician]

It's more of a male thing here in Australia.

[Caismeachd]

The way I see it is that it's a bit too rude (crossing the line) to call a woman a cunt in the UK. It's almost like slapping or something you just wouldn't do in good taste. But calling another guy a cunt (they use it in Australia the same way. My Australian friend called me a cunt on my fb profile for everyone to see) is just a term on endearment.

In US people don't really use the word very much. They wouldn't call another man a cunt. It would be used as a very nasty/ultimate insult like others have mentioned. Like if a woman found another woman cheating on their man they'd lash out and say "You stupid f*cking cunt! I'll kill you!" or something like that. It's only reserved for very nasty moments mostly I think.