Obs. [Back-formation from CUCKING-STOOL.] trans. To punish by setting in the cucking-stool.
1611. Middleton & Dekker, Roaring Girl, V. ii. Follow the law, and you can cuck me, spare not.
1648. Manchester Court Leet Rec. (1887), IV. 25. Mary Kempe … Convicted for a Comon Scould and should have beene Cuckt by the last Constables … The said Mary Kempe [to be] Cookt accordinglie.
16[?]. Roxb. Ballads (1874), II. 54. Oh such a scold would be cuckt.
