![]() The word perhaps is from Iberian Celtic (classical writers say it is Hispanic). 1200, abstracted from Anglo-French conis, Old French coniz, plurals of conil "long-eared rabbit" ( Lepus cunicula) from Latin cuniculus (source of Spanish conejo, Portuguese coelho, Italian coniglio), the small, Spanish variant of the Italian hare (Latin lepus). 1720 but is certainly much earlier and forced a change in the pronunciation of coney (q.v.), but it was good for a pun while coney was still the common word for "rabbit": "A pox upon your Christian cockatrices! They cry, like poulterers' wives, 'No money, no coney.' " Īlso cony, "rabbit," c. Dutch cognate de kont means "a bottom, an arse," but Dutch also has attractive poetic slang ways of expressing this part, such as liefdesgrot, literally "cave of love," and vleesroos "rose of flesh."Īlternative form cunny is attested from c. Under "MONOSYLLABLE" Farmer lists 552 synonyms from English slang and literature before launching into another 5 pages of them in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. "What eyleth yow to grucche thus and grone? Is it for ye wolde haue my queynte allone?" Chaucer used quaint and queynte in "Canterbury Tales" (late 14c.), and Andrew Marvell might be punning on quaint in "To His Coy Mistress" (1650). In Middle English also conte, counte, and sometimes queinte, queynte (for this, see Q). ![]() 1400, but avoided in public speech since 15c. 1230 (and attested through late 14c.) in "Place-Names of Oxfordshire" (Gelling & Stenton, 1953), presumably a haunt of prostitutes. įirst known reference in English apparently is in a compound, Oxford street name Gropecuntlane cited from c. De Vaan rejects this, however, and traces it to "a root *kut-meaning 'bag', 'scrotum', and metaphorically also 'female pudenda,' " source also of Greek kysthos "vagina buttocks pouch, small bag" (but Beekes suspects this is a Pre-Greek word), Lithuanian kutys "(money) bag," Old High German hodo "testicles." Hec vulva: a cunt. ![]() ![]() The form is similar to Latin cunnus "female pudenda" (also, vulgarly, "a woman"), which is likewise of disputed origin, perhaps literally "gash, slit" (from PIE *sker- "to cut") or "sheath" (Watkins, from PIE *(s)keu- "to conceal, hide"). Some suggest a link with Latin cuneus "wedge" (which is of unknown origin), others to PIE root *geu- "hollow place," still others to PIE root *gwen- "woman." (in Hendyng's "Proverbs" - ʒeve þi cunte to cunnig, And crave affetir wedding), akin to Old Norse kunta, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, and Middle Low German kunte, from Proto-Germanic *kunton, which is of uncertain origin. writers refer to it, "the monosyllable," Middle English cunte "female genitalia," by early 14c. "female intercrural foramen," or, as some 18c. ![]()
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