bundy

Well, its precise etymology is in fact fairly clean - as follows:

quaint - c.1225, "cunning, proud, ingenious," from O.Fr. cointe "pretty, clever, knowing," from L. cognitus "known," pp. of cognoscere "get or come to know well" (see cognizance). Sense of "old-fashioned but charming" is first attested 1795, and could describe the word itself, which had become rare after c.1700 (though it soon recovered popularity in this secondary sense).

But Chaucer, the dear old boy, went and made it all smutty:

Chaucer used quaint and queynte as spellings of **** (q.v.) in "Canterbury Tales" (1386), and Andrew Marvell may be punning on it similarly in "To His Coy Mistress" (1650).

There ya go - educated

joseph.creative

see nearly..... 8 minutes to go to before the clock strikes... and as i have to do some work.. extension happenning.

Stewie

5 minutes to go

Covenant

Joe don't mention your extensions

Stewie

You'll need planning permission for those

bundy

Hence, this quote from The Miller's Tale is a bit of basic smut:

'And prively he caughte hire by the queynte'

Let me know if you need a translation.

Nice to see that education wasn't wasted!

Stewie

Not if its under a certain size (is past 11.30 yet?)

bundy

I think Joe's in the clear then

Covenant

Damn! he made it. Well done Joe...Joe? Joe where are you...??

oh no hes gone to sams stud muffin threads. The man's finished.

joseph.creative

let me rephrase that as it is still before 11.30am

I was merely thinking that due to my curretn workload that I should impose a time extension. This making my self imposed smut ban till at least 11.45am

Does anyone else think bundy is copying her quotes from a website?

Covenant

Naw, our Bundy's is brainy, not your common bundy, Shes the rarer University Bundy.

Stewie

Well what an anti-climax (don't make anything of that) I was expecting smut galore at 11.31

bundy

I actually studied this stuff at uni (English, that is, not smut, although we covered a lot of that too). I can translate Chaucer from the original you know, and have done.

I did lift these from a website, but the knowledge was there to start off with, I just needed the detail

bundy

All that build up then disappointment at the end. Typical Joe, eh.

Stewie

I went through University


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