Queynte Edit Meaning

1.

The principal etymological precursor of the word 'cunt', found in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

The fires brenne upon the auter cleere,

Whil Emelye was thus in hir preyere;

But sodeynly she saugh a sighte queynte,

For right anon oon of the fyres queynte,

And quyked agayn, and after that anon

That oother fyr was queynt and al agon;

And as it queynte, it made a whistelynge

As doon thise wete brondes in hir brennynge;

And at the brondes ende out ran anon

As it were blody dropes many oon;

For which so soore agast was Emelye

That she was wel ny mad, and gan to crye;

For she ne wiste what it signyfied.

1.

The principal etymological precursor of the word 'cunt', found in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

The fires brenne upon the auter cleere,

Whil Emelye was thus in hir preyere;

But sodeynly she saugh a sighte queynte,

For right anon oon of the fyres queynte,

And quyked agayn, and after that anon

That oother fyr was queynt and al agon;

And as it queynte, it made a whistelynge

As doon thise wete brondes in hir brennynge;

And at the brondes ende out ran anon

As it were blody dropes many oon;

For which so soore agast was Emelye

That she was wel ny mad, and gan to crye;

For she ne wiste what it signyfied.