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語源

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman cointe, queinte, from Latin cognitus. First attested in c. 1230.

The often-discussed sense "vulva" is usually thought to be an euphemising modification of cunte (“vagina”), but may instead be at least partially a semantic extension of the other adjectival or nominal senses (e.g. "elegant, amazing", "gadget").

発音

• IPA: /ˈkwæi̯nt(ə)/
• IPA: /ˈk(w)ɔi̯nt(ə)/, /ˈk(w)ui̯nt(ə)/ (mostly Southern or West Midland)

形容詞

queynte (comparative queynter, superlative queyntest)

1. intelligent, smart, well-thought, sagacious, judicious:
   1. adept, competent, well-taught
   2. deceptive, cunning, tricky
2. wonderful, curious, extraordinary:
   1. bizarre, odd, weird
   2. esoteric, unknown, unfamiliar
   3. Related to witchcraft or the paranormal
3. renowned, notable, recognisable
4. sophisticated, complicated, detailed
5. polite, kind, of good manners.
6. stylish, trendy, beautiful, attractive
7. boastful, prideful

関連する語

• queyntise

派生した語

• English: quaint
• Middle Scots: quent
  • Scots: whint (Orkney)
• → Middle Cornish: coynt
  • Cornish: koynt

参照

• “queint(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 May 2018.

名詞

queynte (rare)

1. trick, artifice
2. ornament, gadget (of interest)
3. (euphemistic) vulva (female genitalia)
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Tale”, in Canterbury Tales:

     And trewely, as myne housbondes tolde me, / I hadde þe beste queynte þat myghte be.
     [And truly, as my husbands told me / I had the best cunt that might be.]

派生した語

• English: quaint (obsolete)

参照

• “queint(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• Benson, Larry D. (1984), “The "Queynte" Punnings of Chaucer's Critics”, in Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Proceedings, volume 1, the New Chaucer Society, →DOI, pages 35-41.