quim

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".

• IPA^(key): /kwɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɪm

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quim (plural quims)

1. (vulgar, slang) The female genitalia; the vulva.
   • 1879, Anonymous, "The Wanton Lass" in The Pearl No. 1:

     For one day, when amusing herself with this whim

     The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 18: Penelope]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630, part III [Nostos], page 938:

     Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims?

   • 1970, Stephen Longstreet, Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madam, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 145:

     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.

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 2: Une Perm au Casino Hermann Goering, page 235:

     When she's done he licks the last few drops from his lips. More cling, golden clear, to the glossy hairs of her quim.

   • 2005, Margaret Carter, Maiden Flights, →ISBN, page 131:

     Her quim grew wet, ready to welcome it.

2. (vulgar, derogatory) An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person.

   Synonym: cunt

   • 2012, Joss Whedon, The Avengers, spoken by Loki (Tom Hiddleston):

     (to Black Widow) In every way, [ Clint Barton ] knows your fear! And then he'll wake…to see his good work…When he screams, I'll split his skull! This is my bargain, you mewling quim!

Borrowed from Scots queem. Compare English queem.

quim

1. (Ulster) Affectedly nice, prim.
2. (Ulster) Moving with ease and precision.

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