What words to use.

[psiberzerker]

Possibly because it, and variants have come to mean gas expelled from the vagina.

Interesting that you know several women where twat is less offensive than cunt, though I will say, it is quite a bit funnier. So, yet again, it depends who you ask.

 

[NotWise]

Interesting that you know several women where twat is less offensive than cunt, though I will say, it is quite a bit funnier. So, yet again, it depends who you ask.

Personal preference I'm sure, but when my girlfriend thought my eyes were straying too far she got my attention with "Hey, your twat is over here." I like that better than "Hey, you're cunt is over here."

I've also known women who (when drunk enough) referred to themselves as a cunt because it had a bigger attention-getting effect than twat. That goes back to high school, which was a long time ago.

 

[Bramblethorn]

From an article in glamour of all places:

Turns out other slang terms for vaginas date back to as far as 1250, when the first recorded use of the word cunt appeared. It was likely an English street word that came from the very unfortunately named Gropecuntlane, a province once known for its sex workers.

The article seems a bit confused. AFAIK "Gropecuntlane" is the first recorded example of "cunt" in English, but that doesn't mean the word came from the place. (Or rather, places - there were a lot of "Gropecuntlanes" in medieval England.) Much more likely that the places were named from the combination of "grope" and "cunt".

 

[Bramblethorn]

I think I might have posted this a while back, but there's an interesting exchange between Edgar Wright and the British Board of Film Classification about the use of "cunt" in three of Wright's films:

http://www.edgarwrighthere.com/2013/07/31/the-worlds-end-letters-to-the-censor/

I'm particularly amused that the BBFC was able to tell Wright exactly how many times he'd used it in "Hot Fuzz" - clearly they're keeping good records!

 

[Apisto42]

'Quiff' intrigues me. I mentioned it earlier. It was a Victorian phrase for vagina, but by the 1920s it came to mean a cheap slut. It sounds innocuous to me, but if you call a woman a cheap slut by using a slang term for her 'honey pot', then it should be highly offensive.

To me (and I think to my wife) 'twat' is not as offensive as 'cunt' in the same usage, maybe because it sounds more playful. I once had a girlfriend who would refer to herself as a 'twat' but she would never use 'cunt.'

I don't know why 'quiff' fell out of use. I think in the UK it came to describe a hairdo. I have no clue how that change came about.

My wife finds both terms offensive, but agrees with you that “twat” is more playful. For myself, if I was trying to be insulting in a mean way, “cunt” would be the go to word. As in, “that fucking bitch senior executive is a god damn useless cunt”. Adding the word “useless” makes it even more offensive - not even worth a fuck which of course is given away for free.

Whereas I’d be more likely to use “twat” if I was talking about a man who I think is a twit and a general all around waste of space. I never use “twat” in stroke stories. That word always reminds me of Monty python which detracts from the sexual tension.

 

[Apisto42]

The article seems a bit confused. AFAIK "Gropecuntlane" is the first recorded example of "cunt" in English, but that doesn't mean the word came from the place. (Or rather, places - there were a lot of "Gropecuntlanes" in medieval England.) Much more likely that the places were named from the combination of "grope" and "cunt".

Not surprising. Considering it’s “Glamour” magazine. I’m pretty sure the “research” involved five minutes on google. Though I will admit five minutes is longer than I took to “research” the issue...

 

[SolarRay]

I was into quiff until psiberzerker's post.

Here's a hopeless challenge: invent a new slang term for 'vagina' which shall forever trace its origin to literotica, and which is suitably arousing/non-offensive to the majority of those on this thread. (Snicker...)

 

[NotWise]

I was into quiff until psiberzerker's post.

I did minutes of painstaking research and found that "queef" (referring to an audible expulsion of gas from the vagina) did not arise as a varient of "quiff."

Two very reliable internet sources report this origin:

We all have the Saint Queef of Barnaby to thank for this delightfully silly sexual term. Originally born as Queef Mallery in 1639, this woman was famous to have miraculous abilities. She could help the sick and the poor, and interestingly enough she wore her hair in a right-facing gremment.

Whenever someone went near her, she clawed her face and dropped an anvil on her foot. Please note that anvils at the time were made of cheese.As interesting as this woman clearly was, what intrigues us the most is her dead body. Yeah, that’s right.

When the Queef of Barnaby died in 1671, the Pope Clement X went to visit the body and pay his respects. While in attendance, the dead body then created the noise that we now know as a queef. Now, that’s something to be famous for, right?

Unfortunately, for those very reliable internet sources, I was not able to confirm the existence of Saint Queef of Barnaby.

The Oxford English Dictionary online gives what sounds like a more likely origin.

Origin

1990s: probably imitative.

To the best of my knowledge, "quiff" was out of use (except as a hair style) by the 1990s, so an imitative origin for the word sounds reasonable.

 

[weftandwarp]

I find "and" is useful. "But" is also a favorite.

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Well, we're all different. Three words I avoid are but, though and that. I find them difficult to read. But and though usually tell me the writer wants another go at defining something they should have got right first up. It messes my head having to back track and destroys the pace of the story- usually. That is an over used word. It just wastes ink- usually.

Rules are made to be broken and sometimes I break them. I find if there are a lot of any of the three words in what I've written it isn't very good.

 

[oggbashan]

This post shows Shakespearean rude words:

http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=48967917&postcount=4

 

[psiberzerker]

Two very reliable internet sources report this origin:

[citation needed.] (Or a smiley to satisfy Poe's Law. I can't tell.)

I agree, it's probably Onomatopoetic, however, so's Quiff. I said variants there-of, not direct antecendence, because presumably they all make the same sound, once you fuck air into them, and pull out.

Likewise, the words Butt, and Fart need not be directly related, even if Fart may arguably come from Ausvart.

My favorite Shakesearian obscenity was actually in several setting notes. He was fond of "Goose Terd Green" as a background paint. (Yes, speled Terd instead of Turd.)

I also coined the term "Shatspear" for the distinctive stilted delivery. As in: "Cate Blanchette really Shatspeared the fuck out of Galadriel."

 

[psiberzerker]

I doubt we'll get anywhere with coining a term that sweeps the intanets, and slang heretoforth, but the term I use for vaginal duct is Cumpte. (Vulva for the whole shebang, as analogue to the nonspecific pussy, cunt, twat...) I've also used the term Müllera.

 

[Handley_Page]

The characters are wealthy Americans, I don't think they would use that word. Anyway, it doesn't really come up in practice, its more a case of a young man fantasizing over his fiancée and feeling bad about his undignified thoughts about her. No sex before marriage back then.

Thou Jesteth !
How far do you want to go back ? The medieval period was full of it (the swiving, that is).

And a "Quiff" refers to an arrangement of a person's hair (often in a young man)

 

[psiberzerker]

And a "Quiff" refers to an arrangement of a person's hair (often in a young man)

http://www.differencebetween.net/language/difference-between-coif-and-quaff/

 

[NotWise]

And a "Quiff" refers to an arrangement of a person's hair (often in a young man)

Yes it does, but according to at least three lexicons of 1920's slang it was used for a cheap slut, or if worded more gently, a sexually active young woman.