Citations:cunt

English citations of cunt

• c. 1230–1588 Gropecuntlane used as a street name in at least twenty locations in Medieval Europe. Keith Briggs, OE and ME cunte in place-names, Journal of the English Place-Name Society, 41, 26-39 (2009). pdf.
• 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xxxviii, verso, column 2:

  What ayleth you to grutche thus and grone? / Is it for ye wolde haue my queynt alone?

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  [What ails you to grouch thus and groan? / Is it because you would have my cunt alone?]

• 1673 or earlier, poem A Ramble in St. James's Park, by John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester (published in The Works of The Earl of Rochester, Yale, 1968):

  Had she picked out, to rub her arse on,
  Some stiff-pricked clown or well-hung parson,
  Each job of whose spermatic sluice
  Had filled her cunt with wholesome juice, ...

• 1880 Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), [Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

  [Y]e abbot, spying through ye key-hole, did see a tuft of brownish hair with fair white flesh about it, wherefore when ye priest's prayer was done, his chance was gone, forasmuch as ye little maid had but ye one cunt, and that was already occupied to her content.

• 1984 album title by Flux of Pink Indians

  The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks