Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
quaint .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The worth of coynte the Afghan knows: Cabul prefers the other chose!
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Then he began calling out all the names he knew, “Thy slit, thy womb, thy coynte, thy clitoris;” and the girls kept on saying, “No! no!”
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King hath a coynte; this is indeed a wonder of wonders!
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Thereupon quoth the young merchant to himself, “I asked Allah for a bride, and He hath given me three things, to wit, coin, clothing, and coynte.”
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“By the rights of my bonnet,243 if I see or hear thee weeping, I will cut out thy tongue and stuff it up thy coynte, O thou city filth!”
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When I drew up her shift from the roof of her coynte, ii.
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It would be simply impossible to meet up with a more valuable fellow: he'd make you a fish out of a sow's coynte, if that's what you wanted, a pigeon out of her lard, a turtle-dove out of her ham, and a hen out of a knuckle of pork: that's why I named him Daedalus, in a happy moment.
Satyricon 2007
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It would be simply impossible to meet up with a more valuable fellow: he'd make you a fish out of a sow's coynte, if that's what you wanted, a pigeon out of her lard, a turtle-dove out of her ham, and a hen out of a knuckle of pork: that's why I named him Daedalus, in a happy moment.
The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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It would be simply impossible to meet up with a more valuable fellow: he'd make you a fish out of a sow's coynte, if that's what you wanted, a pigeon out of her lard, a turtle-dove out of her ham, and a hen out of a knuckle of pork: that's why I named him Daedalus, in a happy moment.
The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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When I drew up her shift from the roof of her coynte, ii.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
skipvia commented on the word coynte
"Lysistrata shielding her coynte"
The title of one of Beardsley's illustrations from Lysistrata. Without even seeing the image, the etymology should be fairly obvious.
Also, the name of a sexually-repressed spinster in a Tennessee Williams' short story called "Miss Coynte of Green." I think he meant it...
October 17, 2007
reesetee commented on the word coynte
I remember reading The Canterbury Tales in Middle English and encountering the word "quaint." Which meant nothing near what it means today.
October 17, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word coynte
See quim.
October 17, 2007