cuc

Abbreviation of English Usila Chinantec with u and c interchanged.

cuc

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Usila Chinantec.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Usila Chinantec terms

cuc (plural cucs)

1. Alternative form of cuke (“cucumber”)
   • 2007, Roger Harris, Peter Hutchinson, The Amazon‎^[1], Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire: Bradt Travel Guides; Guilford, C.T.: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 110:

     Amazon cucs don't give rise to anything like the familiar vegetables we see in our supermarkets, and wild cucumbers are small, bitter, and in some cases poisonous.

   • 2011 September 4, Mona Holmes, “End of Summer Cucumber Cocktails”, in Huffington Post‎^[2], archived from the original on 4 February 2023:

     I found inspiration from the best from bars and restaurants of Los Angeles, but home bartending is as simple as combining fresh cucumbers (juiced cucs give better flavor), simple syrup and a clear alcohol.

   • 2013, Gary Griffith, A House of Stone Is Forever‎^[3], Bloomington, I.N.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 146:

     He finished slicing the cucs and placed them in a brine of vinegar and water, floating on the top of a shallow glass bowl.

   • 2025 June 18, u/therobotisjames, “What is going on with these pickling cucumbers?”, in Reddit‎^[4], r/vegetablegardening, archived from the original on 19 August 2025:

     If i see a cuc with a little tail I usually pick it off and toss. You need to plant more flowers to get more pollinators to your garden. You can hand pollinate but I've found it's not that great on cucs. It takes like 5-10 times before you pollinate correctly.

Possibly of onomatopoeic origin.^[1] Compare to Aragonese cuco or Sardinian cucurra.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkuk]

• Audio (Valencia):

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cuc m (plural cucs)

1. worm

• cuc on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

From Late Latin cucus or cuccus, compare also Latin cuculus.

cuc m (plural cucs)

1. cuckoo
2. (figurative) fool

cuc m (plural cucs)

1. look, glance, peep

• cucâ

From Proto-Mayan *kuuʼk.

cuc

1. squirrel

• Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955), Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano‎^[5] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 6; 10

Inherited from Late Latin cucus or cuccus. Compare Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux), Classical Latin cuculus.

• IPA^(key): /kuk/

cuc m (plural cuci)

1. cuckoo (bird)
2. (figurative) an extravagant thing
3. (adverbial) alone, isolated
4. a game played by little kids (like hide and go seek)
5. (figurative, euphemistic) a penis

• cucu
• cuculă

• cuculide
• cuculiforme

• “cuc”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

cuc m (plural cucs)

1. (Surmiran) nap

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) siesta, durmida
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) cupid
• (Sursilvan) tut
• (Sutsilvan) sien
• (Surmiran) cupidada, durmeidetta
• (Puter, Vallader) sönin
• (Vallader) sönet

From the ISO 4217 code CUC.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuk/ [ˈkuk]
• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: cuc

cuc m (plural cuc)

1. (Cuba, informal) Cuban convertible peso

cuc

1. obsolete spelling of kúuk