Talk:cunt hunt

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cunt hunt

This is sum of parts; cunt can be replaced with any other vulgar synonym, and hunt generally uses the sense "To try to find something; search." That sense may not be quite right, but the example sentences "The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach." and "The police are hunting for evidence." both imply the acquisition of the item after the search. I don't believe anyone familiar with the words cunt and hunt wouldn't understand cunt hunt to include the immediate use of the "cunt" for sexual purposes.--Prosfilaes (talk) 19:55, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Also, "he was on the cunt hunt" and "he was on the hunt for cunt" should mean the same things and be equally well understood. I'd note job hunt is a parallel phrase, much more common, where the acquisition is not as literal as shells on the beach.--Prosfilaes (talk) 19:59, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Delete, I'm sure Romanophile literally only created this because it rhymes. Renard Migrant (talk) 20:55, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Delete (as author). --Romanophile (talk) 00:34, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Dunno, is it "idiomatic"? I've never heard it, but in G.Books I can see "been on the cunt hunt" and "if you want to cunt hunt, there's a phone..."; I think we have entries for some other rhyming forms that have caught on. This one does seem somewhat transparent though. Equinox ◑ 00:56, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Delete, a rather low-grade entry, IMO. Donnanz (talk) 20:20, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Keep. It's idiomatic insofar as it doesn't refer to the literal search for a vagina, but to the search for a sexual partner in possession of one. And, even if it's not idiomatic, I think it's arguably a set phrase, given the fair number of hits it gets on Google Books. Compare spank bank. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 10:49, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Cunt does have the sense 'woman... as a source of sex'. Also the only conclusion I get from comparing cunt hunt and spank bank is that they have nothing in common. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:11, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

I meant that it's another example of a rhyming sex-related slang phrase. Equinox mentioned "rhyming forms that have caught on" above, and that was one I could pull off the top of my head. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 20:24, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

As job hunt is idiomatic because you aren't searching for a job, but for an employer willing to hire you. "Hunting for X" usually implies some limitations on the type of X you're hunting for. Heck, X usually implies some limitations; in commerce, it's called "implied warranty of usability", since the law has to make explicit what's implicit in human communication, that someone asking for a hamburger is asking for one without metal shrapnel and a red ball in a children's store for one that doesn't have acid or explosive inside.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:30, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

"Job hunt" is arguably a set phrase. It's way more common than other ways of saying the same thing, such as "employment hunt." And OneLook shows that Oxford, Collins, and American Heritage already have it. I'd say there's a stronger case for including it than there is for not. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 22:42, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Deleted. bd2412 T 03:11, 15 December 2014 (UTC)