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quaint
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Or, more rarely, quainter , obsolete term used by Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400) and his contemporaries for the vagina, an obvious pun on cunt. It has been suggested that cunt may derive from the Old English coint / coynte / quaint / qwaynt / queynte. See vagina for synonyms.QUOTE: Geoffrey Chaucer. The Miller's Tale (1386): ' Full prively he caught her by the queinte.' and ' Prycelyhe caught her by the queynte.' ( Queynte , from quaint , a many-layered, in-folded mystery.)
(Adjective) Cute, cozy, tidy
Usage: The quaint cottage in the forest overlooked the mountains.
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