I was looking up, ummmmm, profanities.. wondered where they came from.
There was a street in England called Gropecunt_Lane in 1280 AD .. you KNOW
what was going on there!?? LOL !! They didn't change this street name until
1561 .. to Grape Lane.. Sometime later, one of these "Gropecunt Lane" s, the
one in Oxford, was changed to Magpie Lane.
So, prostitution was a normal practice ... acceptable enough to be dealt with by "regulation rather than by censure.. around 1393. .. and authorites allowed them to work only in Cocks Lane, London!!
In part of a verse from Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale", he writes:
Sherborne Lane in London was in 1272–73 known as Shitteborwelane, later Shite-burn lane and Shite-buruelane (possibly due to nearby cess pits).
(so if you worked as an asylum, would it be on Shit-for-Brains Lane?)
There was a street in England called Gropecunt_Lane in 1280 AD .. you KNOW
what was going on there!?? LOL !! They didn't change this street name until
1561 .. to Grape Lane.. Sometime later, one of these "Gropecunt Lane" s, the
one in Oxford, was changed to Magpie Lane.
The first record of the word grope being used in the indecent sense of sexual touching appears in 1380; cunt has been used to describe thevulva since at least 1230, and corresponds to the Old Norse kunta, although its etymology is uncertain.Also:
....author Angus McIntyre, organised prostitution was well established inLondon by the middle of the 12th century, initially mainly confined toSouthwark in the southeast, but later spreading to other areas such as Smithfield,Shoreditch, Clerkenwell, and Westminster.
So, prostitution was a normal practice ... acceptable enough to be dealt with by "regulation rather than by censure.. around 1393. .. and authorites allowed them to work only in Cocks Lane, London!!
In part of a verse from Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale", he writes:
And prively he caughte hire by the queynte" (and intimately he caught her by her crotch)And more references:
In John Garfield's Wandring Whore II (1660) the word is applied to a woman, specifically a whore—"this is none of your pittiful Sneakesbyes and Raskalls that will offer a sturdy C— but eighteen pence or two shillings, and repent of the business afterwards".[11][12] Francis Grose's A Classical Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue (1785) lists the word as "C**t. Thechonnos of the Greek, and the cunnus of the Latin dictionaries; a nasty name for a nasty thing: un con Miege.Some streets where names for other things that happened on the roads/lanes..
Sherborne Lane in London was in 1272–73 known as Shitteborwelane, later Shite-burn lane and Shite-buruelane (possibly due to nearby cess pits).
(so if you worked as an asylum, would it be on Shit-for-Brains Lane?)
Large medieval towns across England, ones that had the GropeKunt Lanes, were in Bristol, York, Shrewsbury, Newcastle upon Tyne, Worcester, Hereford and Oxford. also, Banbury and Wells.
There are cognates in most Germanic languages, such as the Swedish, Faroese and Nynorsk kunta; West Frisian and Middle Low German kunte; Middle Dutch conte; Dutch kut;Middle Low German kutte; Middle High German kotze ("prostitute"); German kott, and perhaps Old English cot.
in Chaucer's usage there seems to be an overlap between the words "cunt" and "quaint" (possibly derived from the Latin for "known"). "Quaint" was probably pronounced in Middle English in much the same way as "cunt". It is sometimes unclear whether the two words were thought of as distinct from one another.
Then we have : Tickle_Cock_Bridge !! The word Cock first used vulgarly for penis in 1619.
