Quin vs Quim - What's the difference?
quin | quim |
A European scallop, Pecten opercularis , used as food.
* 1973 , N. L. Tranter, Population since the industrial revolution (page 104)
(vulgar, slang) The female genitalia; the vulva.
* 1879 , Anonymous, " No. 1:
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses , page 938:
* 2005 , Margaret Carter, Maiden Flights (ISBN 1419952595), page 131:
(Ulster) Affectedly nice, prim.
(Ulster) Moving with ease and precision.
As nouns the difference between quin and quim
is that quin is a quintuplet while quim is the female genitalia; the vulva.As an adjective quim is
affectedly nice, prim.quin
English
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Noun
(en noun)- Similarly the stocks of the free-living scallops and quins , which are caught by trawling, are threatened by over-fishing to supply the market for canned or frozen luxury sea-foods.
quim
English
Etymology 1
Origin 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 is sometimes suggested, but the OED notes that this is "unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds".Noun
(en noun)- For one day, when amusing herself with this whim
- The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim .
- Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims ?
- Her quim grew wet, ready to welcome it.