quim

Definition

The female genitalia; the vulva.

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps an alteration of queme. The English Dialect Dictionary has a citation of "quim and cosh" from 1723 which it glosses as "intimate and familiar". Compare also quaint, cunt. Derivation from Welsh cwm (“hollow”) is sometimes suggested, but the OED notes that this is "unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds".

Example Sentences

• "For one day, when amusing herself with this whim The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim."
• "Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims?"
• "As for whores—they are sometimes daughters of fine homes peddling their quim and quiff for a thumbnail of cocaine or a tot of rot-gut whiskey."