Editing Cunt (section)

===Other usage===
In informal British, Irish, New Zealand, and Australian English, and occasionally but to a lesser extent in Canadian English, it can be used with no negative connotations to refer to a (usually male) person.<ref name="Green nice cunt">{{Cite book|title=Green's Dictionary of Slang|first=Jonathon |last=Green |volume=1 |publisher=Chambers |date=2008 |isbn=978-0-550-10443-4|pages=1454–1456 |url= https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/w7hgqcy |access-date=30 October 2016 |quote=a person, usu. male, with no negative implications ... Hello you old cunt}}</ref> In this sense, it may be modified by a positive qualifier (funny, clever, etc.).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Doyle |first1=Benny |title=Kirin J Callinan, TV on the Radio @ The Tivoli |url=https://themusic.com.au/article/tGCnpqmoq6o/tv-on-the-radio-tivoli-ben-doyle |access-date=1 May 2019 |work=TheMusic.com.au |date=11 June 2015 |archive-date=1 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501001021/https://themusic.com.au/article/tGCnpqmoq6o/tv-on-the-radio-tivoli-ben-doyle |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Irvine Welsh">For example, ''Glue'' by [[Irvine Welsh]], p.&nbsp;266, "Billy can be a funny cunt, a great guy&nbsp;...."</ref><ref name="slate">{{cite news |last1=Withers |first1=Rachel |title=Lady Bird Has Been Censored in Australia, a Country that Loves the C-Word |url=https://slate.com/culture/2018/03/australian-censors-cut-the-word-cunt-from-lady-bird-but-aussies-love-it-anyway.html |access-date=30 April 2019 |work=Slate |date=2 March 2018}}</ref> For example, "This is my mate Brian. He's a good cunt."<ref name="spinoff">{{cite news |last1=Braae |first1=Alex |title=Good c*nts and pōkokohua: What words do New Zealanders find most offensive? |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/19-07-2018/good-cnts-and-pokokohua-what-words-do-new-zealanders-find-most-offensive/ |access-date=30 April 2019 |work=The Spinoff |date=19 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Braier |first1=Rachel |title=In praise of the C-word |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2016/jul/11/in-praise-of-the-c-word |access-date=30 April 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=11 July 2016}}</ref> In [[Welsh language|Welsh]], {{lang|cy|cont}} (the Welsh equivalent) is sometimes used as a term of endearment, such as the phrase {{lang|cy|iawn cont}} ({{lit|okay cunt}}) in [[Caernarfon]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://clwbmalucachu.co.uk/cmc/cheat/cheat_swearing.htm | title=CLWB malu cachu }}</ref>

It can also be used to refer to something very difficult or unpleasant (as in "a cunt of a job").<ref name="Green unpleasant cunt">{{Cite book|title=Green's Dictionary of Slang|first=Jonathon |last=Green |volume=1 |publisher=Chambers |date=2008 |isbn=978-0-550-10443-4|pages=1454–1456 |url= https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/w7hgqcy |access-date=30 October 2016 |quote=something very unpleasant or difficult to do or achieve ... She had a cunt of a job}}</ref>

In the [[Survey of English Dialects]] the word was recorded in some areas as meaning "the vulva of a cow". This was pronounced as [kʌnt] in [[Devon]], and [kʊnt] in the [[Isle of Man]], [[Gloucestershire]] and [[Northumberland]]. Possibly related was the word ''cunny'' [kʌni], with the same meaning, in [[Wiltshire]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Upton |first1=Clive| last2=Parry| first2=David|last3=Widdowson| first3=JDA |title=Survey of English Dialects: the dictionary and the grammar |year=1994 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-0-415-02029-9 |page=108}}</ref>

The word "cunty" is also known, although used rarely: a line from [[Hanif Kureishi]]'s ''[[My Beautiful Laundrette]]'' is the definition of England by a [[British Asian|Pakistani immigrant]] as "eating hot buttered toast with cunty fingers", suggestive of hypocrisy and a hidden sordidness or immorality behind the country's quaint façade. This term is attributed to British novelist [[Henry Green]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.theparisreview.org/media/GREEN.pdf#search=%22cunty%20fingers%22|title= The Art Of Fiction No. 22 – Henry Green|access-date=6 March 2008 |format= PDF|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080229021024/http://www.theparisreview.org/media/GREEN.pdf#search=%22cunty%20fingers%22 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date =29 February 2008}}</ref> In the United States, "cunty" is sometimes used in [[cross-dressing]] drag [[ball culture]] for a [[drag queen]] that "projects feminine beauty"<ref>Laurence Senelick, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DUk008nvuhgC The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre, Psychology Press, 2000], p. 505</ref> and was the title of a hit song by [[Kevin Aviance|Aviance]].<ref>José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, NYU Press, 30 November 2009, p. 74</ref> A visitor to a New York drag show tells of the emcee praising a queen with "cunty, cunty, cunty" as she walks past.<ref>David Valentine, [https://books.google.com/books?id=VOv-kTqi8tsC&q=cunty+transgender Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category, Duke University Press, 30 August 2007], p. 81</ref>

Rapper [[Azealia Banks]] is known for her frequent usage of the word,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Interview: Azealia Banks | website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN93YnIsDNg&t=111s |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604150631/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN93YnIsDNg&t=111s |archive-date=4 June 2021 |access-date=20 January 2024}}</ref> and her fans are known as the Kunt Brigade.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=2015 Fan Army Face-Off |url=http://billboard.com/fan-army-bracket/ |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150829172950/http://www.billboard.com/fan-army-bracket/ |archive-date=29 August 2015 |access-date=20 January 2024 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref> She's said in one interview:<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=10 September 2012 |title=Q&A: Azealia Banks on Why the C-Word Is 'Feminine' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/qa-azealia-banks-on-why-the-c-word-is-feminine-181176/ |access-date=20 January 2024 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text="To be cunty is to be feminine and to be, like, aware of yourself. Nobody's fucking with that inner strength and delicateness. The cunts, the gay men, adore that. My friends would say, "Oh you need to cunt it up! You're being too [[banjee]]."|source=}}

In the 2020s, the phrase "[[serving cunt]]" (or to "serve cunt") became popular as a term for acting in a powerfully and unapologetically feminine manner.<ref>{{cite web|author=Gavia Baker-Whitelaw|title=What does 'serving c*nt' mean?|work=[[The Daily Dot]]|url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/serving-cnt-memes-explained/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230629145345/https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/serving-cnt-memes-explained/|date=16 May 2023|archive-date=2023-06-29|quote=First off, while a lot of people still drop the C-word as a sexist pejorative, "serving cunt" is 100% complimentary. As we already mentioned, it started out as drag slang, typically describing a person with an aggressively cool, bold outfit and/or attitude.}}</ref>