cucking stool

[kuhk-ing]

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noun

a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was strapped, to be mocked and pelted or ducked in water.

cucking stool

/ ˈ��ʌ��ɪŋ /

noun

history a stool to which suspected witches, scolds, etc, were tied and pelted or ducked into water as a punishment Compare ducking stool

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cucking stool¹

1175–1225; Middle English cucking stol, literally, defecating stool, equivalent to cucking, present participle of cukken to defecate (< Scandinavian; compare dial Swedish kukka ) + stol stool

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cucking stool¹

C13 cucking stol, literally: defecating chair, from cukken to defecate; compare Old Norse ��ú�� excrement

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There was also an instrument called a cucking stool - alternatively known as a "scolding stool" or a "stool of repentance".

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In the year 1572 Kingston got a new cucking stool; the Kingston scolds had become past bearing.

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Years ago a ducking or cucking stool was placed at the northern side of it, adjoining a pit, and at the edge of the thoroughfare known as Meadow street.

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cuck cuckold

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