C-word

American  

[see-wurd] / ˈsiˌwɜrd /

Also c word or c-word

noun

1. a euphemism for the word cunt : She actually said to my face, “Listen, your sister is a C-word, and that’s a fact!”

   I can’t believe you used the c-word in front of the kids.

   She actually said to my face, “Listen, your sister is a C-word, and that’s a fact!”

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c-word British  

noun

1. taboo (sometimes capital) a euphemistic way of referring to the word cunt

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Etymology

Origin of C-word

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

However, after an operation to rectify the problems, she said she "heard the dreaded C-word" and was diagnosed with pseudomyxoma peritonei – a rare tumour that causes a build-up of a jelly-like substance in the abdomen.

From BBC

Hod Lipson, a roboticist at Columbia University, said that some people in his field referred to consciousness as “the C-word.”

From New York Times

“We were almost forbidden from talking about it — ‘Don’t talk about the c-word; you won’t get tenure’ — so in the beginning I had to disguise it, like it was something else.”

From New York Times

He began to say the c-word out loud: He wants to create conscious robots.

From New York Times

Some doctors say it’s time to rename low-grade prostate cancer to eliminate the alarming C-word.

From Seattle Times