2018年8月17日 · The originally short vowel of quean would have been lengthened in Middle English, resulting in a long but open-mid vowel [ɛː] (as opposed to the long close-mid vowel [eː] that would have been used in the Middle English pronunciation of the word queen). But after the Great Vowel Shift, [ɛː] and [eː] merged in most contexts as Modern ...

The Oxford English Dictionary online's first few lines of the etymology of queen are as follows: Cognate with Old Saxon quān wife, Old Icelandic kván wife, (in poetry) queen (also as kvæn ), Gothic qens woman < an ablaut variant (lengthened grade) of the Indo-European base of quean n.; compare Sanskrit jāni wife.

2015年2月9日 · A modern literary example: In Gillian Flynn's novel Gone Girl, although the beautiful pro/antagonist Amy Elliott Dunne is fully aware her husband has been cheating for over a year, she pretends not to know and is far from being acquiescent.

2019年7月8日 · The only three Old English words I know referring to prostitutes are meretrix (a direct borrowing from Latin), for-legis (and similar forms, though they tend to also mean adulterer and rarely survived Old English), and miltestre (possibly based on meretrix, which makes it into the Middle English Dictionary as prostitute).

2017年12月19日 · Come, come, you Quean, I'll make you leave your fooling, come to your Spindle, or else I'll lam your Hide, you were ne'er lamm'd so since you were an Inch long. In Jevon's play, "lam" (and "lamm'd") are used with the meaning shown in the 1825 A glossary of north country words in use, by John Trotter Brockett: Lam, Lamb, to beat soundly. "Aw'l ...

2013年12月19日 · Early dictionary coverage of 'quim' Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) has nine slang terms for "the private parts" of a girl or woman—to wit: bumbo, Carvel's ring, cauliflower, cock alley (or cock lane), commodity, madge, money, muff, and notch, plus an unidentified tenth one, ****, that appears in the entry for cauliflower.

2011年2月12日 · There is no rule that q must be followed by u in all circumstances. This is merely true in the vast majority of circumstances, and it goes back to Latin.

2022年1月1日 · There are a number of slang terms that use the term "screw". Pulling from an answer on this site:. screw-based [slang terms] abound: you can screw something up (mess it up), you can be screwy (crazy), you can be screwed (ruined, done for), you can ‘screw it’ (forget it, leave it aside), you can screw someone over (cheat them), you can screw around (fool around), you can screw someone (as ...