Talk:Anglish Wordbook/C

One of the most infamous four-letter words should probably go here
Yup, "cunt". This word has been used at least as far back as Middle English, and it has cognates in the Germanic languages (Old Norse/Swedish/Faroese: kunta, Middle Low German/West Frisian: kunte, Middle Dutch: conte, Dutch:kont and kut, Middle High German: kotze- "prostitute"). There are also somewhat similar Romance words with similar meanings - cunnus, conyo, con, cona - but those words seem more distantly related.

"Cunt" appears several times in "The Canterbury Tales", and its first known use was in street names in red-light districts ("Gropecunt Lane" being typical). The word "cunt" may date back to the Anglo-Saxons. Rickyrab (talk) 02:49, August 24, 2015 (UTC)