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cucking stool

[ kuhk-ing ]

noun

  1. 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

/ ˈkʌkɪŋ /

noun

  1. history a stool to which suspected witches, scolds, etc, were tied and pelted or ducked into water as a punishment Compare ducking stool
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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 kúkr excrement
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Example Sentences

Two years later, a new cucking-stool was made at the expense of the parish.

Scold′er; Scold′ing, railing: a rating; Scold′ing-stool, a cucking-stool.

The cucking-stool in the early history of England must not be confounded with the ducking-stool.

Chief among them was the Ducking or Cucking-stool, a scourge for scolds, and once as common in every parish as the stocks.

Two pounds were paid for a cucking-stool at Leicester in 1768.

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