A perfectly good cunt

The c-word, 'cunt', is perhaps the most offensive word in the English language, and consequently it has never been researched in depth. Hugh Rawson's Dictionary Of Invective contains the most detailed study of what he calls "The most heavily tabooed of all English words" , though his article is only five pages long. According to Francis Grose's scurrilous definition, it is "a nasty name for a nasty thing" As a noun, 'cunt' has numerous other senses: a woman viewed as a sexual object , sexual intercourse, a foolish person, an infuriating device, an ironically affectionate term of address, the mouth as a sexual organ, the anus as a sexual organ, the buttocks, prostitution, a vein used for drug-injection, a synonym for 'damn', an attractive woman, an object or place, the essence of someone, and a difficult task.

Indeed, a single use of the word over here in the UK guarantees a 15 rating from the BBFC and, in most cases, anything more than a single use rockets a film straight up to the adults-only 18 certificate. The intruder ultimately turns out to be Monty himself, leading Withnail to let fly with a particularly choice insult. Edgar Wright allows himself a smattering of C-bombs in all three of his Cornetto movies. Human beings are messy, infuriating and in many cases downright loathsome on occasion. Many of the entries on this list are comedic. This one, however, is very much the opposite. His hate campaign comes to a head when he and his new gang tear apart an Asian-run convenience store and Graham spits racist invective at the shop owner while brandishing a machete.

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