- cucking stool (n.)
[cucking stool 词源字典]
- early 13c., from cuck "to void excrement," from Old Norse kuka "feces" (the chair was sometimes in the form of a close-stool). Also known as trebucket and castigatory, it was used on disorderly women and fraudulent tradesmen, either in the form of public exposure to ridicule or for ducking in a pond.[cucking stool etymology, cucking stool origin, 英语词源]