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A term for the female genitals, and a highly insulting term (if you're American; many people in Britain and [Austrailia] actually use it among frends as a term of endearment).

"Pudenda" is used more often and concidered aomewhat less "value-laden", but it's often overlooked that "pudenda" comes from "pudendum", which means "shameful part"; many societies see the vulva as unclean and/or shameful, but there's nothing shameful about the female genitals. "Cunt" is a native English word (and there aren't many of those) It goes back to an Old Germanic stem "kunton".

It may have arose by Grimm's law operating on the Proto-Indo-European root gen/gon = "create, become" seen in gonads, genital, gamete, genetics, gene, or the Proto-Indo-European root gwne/gune = "woman" seen in gynaecology. The prefix 'cu' is one of the [oldest] word-sounds in recorded language. It is an expression [quintessentially] associated with [femininity], and is the basis of 'cow' ('female animal'), 'queen' ('female monarch'), and, of course, 'cunt' ('female genital'). The word's second most [significant] influence is the Latin term 'cuneus', meaning 'wedge', from which comes 'cunnus' ('vagina').

Sadly, this ancient word has been abused so much, and has been used against women very often.

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