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English

Preposition

cum

  • Used in indicating a thing or person which has two or more roles, functions, or natures, or which has changed from one to another.
    • ✤ He is too good an actor to need that sort of tomfoolery: the effect will be far better if he is a credible mining camp elder- cum -publican.1
    • ✤ One driver- cum -fireman- cum -fitter looks after the three locomotives, […].2
    • ✤ The banner shows a yellowed silhouette of a boy (possibly Calvin, of Calvin & Hobbes) urinating on an EU flag. Sites such as this show the full power of the Internet as a propaganda medium cum travel service cum organizing tool. Oh, and nightlife directory.3
    • ✤ Coffee shops- cum -meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank). Caffeine-fuelled, lactose-intolerant, macadamia milk latte-drinking young folk are journalling, manifesting, coding, ChatGPT-ing and pitching their ideas.4
    • ✤ [Sam] Altman, the techno-optimist bent on commercialization, lost out to[Ilya] Sutskever, the Brutus cum mad scientist fearful that super-smart AI poses an existential risk to humanity.5
    • ✤ Funnily enough, it wasn’t that long ago that the year 2016 was derided for being overly romanticised, rooted in the “hope and change” ideals- cum -slogans used by the 2008 Obama presidential campaign before that all got blown away.6
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cum.

Noun

cum (uncountable) (colloquial, vulgar)

  • Semen.
    • ✤ Synonyms: jizz, (chiefly UK) spunk, (US) spooge, nut, skeet, junk; see also Thesaurus: semen
    • ✤ Jim descends into the murky tunnel; the faint odor of cum permeates the air.7
    • ✤ Licking a friend’s cum off another friend’s belly.8
    • ✤ This week I learned that cum tastes like nickels.9
  • Female ejaculatory discharge.
  • An ejaculation.

Verb

cum (third-person singular simple present cums, present participle cumming, simple pastcame or (nonstandard) cummed, past participlecome or cum or (nonstandard) cummed)

  • (slang, vulgar) To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.
    • ✤ Synonym: climax
    • ✤ Despite claims to the contrary, a woman can cum from anal sex alone.
  • (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
    • ✤ Synonyms: see Thesaurus: ejaculate
    • ✤ Some men cum as much as 10 milliliters.
    • ✤ I got no sensation down there, so I don’t know when I’m hard, I don’t know when I cum. My wife’s gotta tell me.10
    • ✤ Sucking on pork ribs and summoning pornography/So that we can cum when we fuck/Our partners don’t know us/Our families are strangers11
  • Eye dialect spelling of come (“move from further to nearer; arrive”).
    • ✤ “Where’d he cum from?” the bowman inquired. “That’s what we’d like ter know, yer see; where he cum from, and how he happen’d to cum,” responded the steersman. “But he’s a jolly good feller, strong as a lion, […]”12

Adjective

cum (not comparable)

  • Clipping of cumulative.

Noun

cum (uncountable)

  • Abbreviation of cubic metre.
    • ✤ The density of cement is 1440 kg/cum.

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin cum (“with”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /kʌm/, /kʊm/131415
  • Audio (UK): 🔊
  • Audio (General American): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -ʌm, -ʊm

Etymology 2

Variant of come, attested (in the basic sense “come, move from further to nearer, arrive”) since Old English. The sexual sense of come is attested since the 1650s. In this sense and spelling, attested from 1970s.16

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /kʌm/, enPR: kŭm171819
  • Audio (UK): 🔊
  • Audio (US): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -ʌm
  • Homophone: come

Etymology 3

Etymology 4

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 1926-1950, George Bernard Shaw, Collected Letters: 1926-1950 ‎, University of California/Viking, published 1985, page 31: ↩

  2. 1944 May and June, “Notes and News: The Snailbeach District Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 183: ↩

  3. 2001 Nov/Dec, David Sachs, “LET THEM EAT BITS”, in American Spectator, volume 34, number 8, page 78: ↩

  4. 2023 February 5, Kathryn Parsons, “Boom times are back in San Francisco’s tech mecca”, in The Sunday Times ‎, archived from the original on 25 April 2026: ↩

  5. 2023 November 22, Derek Thompson, “The OpenAI Mess Is About One Big Thing”, in The Atlantic ‎, archived from the original on 22 November 2023: ↩

  6. 2026 January 24, Elizabeth Paton, “Remember those innocent days of 2016?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20: ↩

  7. 1977, John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw, New York: Dell, →ISBN, page 73: ↩

  8. 1989 December 24, Read Weaver, “Queers For Years”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 24, page 9: ↩

  9. 2014, Norm Macdonald Live, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Norm Macdonald: ↩

  10. 1997 July 14, “Visits, Conjugal, and Otherwise”, in Oz, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau): ↩

  11. 2019, “All Humans Too Late”, in The Book of Traps and Lessons, performed by Kae Tempest: ↩

  12. 1882, William Makepeace Thayer, From Log-Cabin to White House, page 162: ↩

  13. “cum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. ↩

  14. “cum”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. ↩

  15. “cum”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. ↩

  16. Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “cum”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. ↩

  17. “cum”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. ↩

  18. “cum”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. ↩

  19. “cum”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. ↩

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