or queme, quimsby, quim-box, quin, subs. (venery).—The female pudendum: see MONOSYLLABLE. Hence QUIM-STAKE (or WEDGE) = the penis: see PRICK; QUIM-STICKER = a whoremonger; see MUTTON-MONGER; QUIM-STICKING (QUIMMING, or QUIM-WEDGING) = copulation: see GREENS; QUIM-BUSH (-WIG, or -WHISKERS) = the pubic hair: see FLEECE.—GROSE (1785).
1613. Old Play in Rawl. MS. (Bodleian), ‘Tumult’ [HALLIWELL]. “I tell you, Hodge, in sooth it was not cleane, it was as black as ever was Malkin’s QUEME.”
c. 1707. Broadside Ballad, ‘The Harlot Unmask’d’ [FARMER, Merry Songs and Ballads (1897), iv. 111].
| Tho’ her Hands they are red, and her Bubbies are coarse, | |
| Her QUIM, for all that, may be never the worse. | |
| Ibid. | |
| On her QUIM and herself depends for Support. |
1847. HALLIWELL, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, etc., s.v. QUEME … (3) the same as the old word queint, which, as I am informed by a correspondent at Newcastle, is still used in the North of England by the colliers and common people.
