The Oxford American Dictionary (the American cousin of our great lexical authority, the Oxford English Dictionary) defines the word "cunt" (noun, vulgar slang) as 1) a woman's genitals; 2) a woman
The word "cunt" first appeared in the year 1230 as part of a street name: Gropecunt Lane--a thoroughfare in London where prostitutes conducted their business.
In 1390 Geoffrey Chaucer used the word "cunt" in The Miller's Tale (part of The Cantebury Tales):
"Pryvely he caught her by the queynte"
(In modern English: "Privately, he caught her by the cunt")
Parenthetically--if anyone is interested in reading some old school smut, Geoffrey Chaucer is your guy.
Some believe that Chaucer's use of the word "queynte" also invoked the word "quaint," forming what is known as a "double entendre." So the next time someone calls you a "cunt," they may, in fact, mean that you are simply "attractively unusual or old-fashioned."
Hey, what are you pointing at?
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