cum

prep

1. 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.”

   “One driver-cum-fireman-cum-fitter looks after the three locomotives, [...].”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “[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.”

noun

1. (colloquial, uncountable, vulgar)Semen.

   “Jim descends into the murky tunnel; the faint odor of cum permeates the air.”

   “Licking a friend's cum off another friend's belly.”

   “This week I learned that cum tastes like nickels.”

2. (colloquial, uncountable, vulgar)Female ejaculatory discharge.
3. (colloquial, uncountable, vulgar)An ejaculation.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, uncountable, vulgar)Abbreviation of cubic metre.

   “The density of cement is 1440 kg/cum.”

verb

1. (colloquial, slang, vulgar)To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.

   “Despite claims to the contrary, a woman can cum from anal sex alone.”

2. (colloquial, slang, vulgar)To 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.”

   “Sucking on pork ribs and summoning pornography / So that we can cum when we fuck / Our partners don’t know us / Our families are strangers”

3. (alt-of, colloquial, pronunciation-spelling, vulgar)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, […]””

adj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, not-comparable, vulgar)Clipping of cumulative.