queynte

Cunt’s literary appearance is as the Middle English word queynte in Chaucer’s ‘The Miller’s Tale’.

C.U.Next Tuesday - :: gia’s blog :: 2004

A revival of 'queynte' is called for, though that would make a bit of problem for presenters talking about places like York with its quaint little corners...

Jeremy Paxman follows Naughtie example with on-air 'cuts' blunder 2011

MSILF, I think for me there's a difference between Chaucer and such using "queynte" to describe a body part, and modern writers using "cunt" to describe a woman.

Considering Updike* Bardiac 2009

In class I explained that "queynte" was the ancestor to our modern four-letter word, c***.

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2006

By the way, the word, in Middle English, is queynte.

Congratulations to Jane Fonda! Ann Althouse 2008

I once had them ID the passage from the Miller's Tale with this line "And prively he caughte hire by the queynte."

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2006

[Sidenote: * Page 32.] +Q+ to queynte, ne [*] to quarelose, but queeme weel ȝoure souereyns.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

I have always found it preposterously hilarious the way the Wife of Bath's quoniam and Alison's queynte in the Miller's Tale are both glossed as "pudendum."

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1 1987