or queint, queynte, quaynte, cunt, subs. (old).—The female pudendum: see MONOSYLLABLE and CUNT.
1383. CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales, ‘The Miller’s Tale.’ And prively he caught hire by the QUEINT.
1598. FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Conno, A womans privie parts or QUAINT as Chaucer calles it.
Adj. and adv. (old: now recognised).—‘Curious, neat, also strange.’—B. E. (c. 1696).
