# perverse genitalia terminology

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 2, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perverse-genitalia-terminology/287941 "2005-02-02T04:26:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![DuhCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@DuhCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DuhCow)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perverse-genitalia-terminology/287941/1 "2005-02-02T04:26:02Z")

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the word “queef,” which i may be spelling wrong, essentially meaning a vag fart, must have come from some other origin. does anyone know what it is? also, are there other fairly archaic genitalia terms that haven’t really made their mark on the mainstream guttermouths?

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**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perverse-genitalia-terminology/287941/2 "2005-02-02T04:38:16Z")

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From [here](http://www.matthewhunt.com/cunt.html)

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> In Celtic and modern Welsh, ‘cu’ is rendered as ‘cw’, a similarly feminine prefix influencing the Old English ‘cwithe’ (‘womb’, from the Welsh ‘cwtch’)…‘Cwm’ also shares the ‘cw’ prefix, however its feminine origins seem initially perplexing, as it means ‘valley’. In fact, this topographical definition is clearly a vaginal metaphor, as valleys are as furrowed and fertile as vaginas …‘Cwm’ is pronounced ‘come’, though ‘quim’, an English slang term for ‘vagina’, is a mispronounced Anglicisation of it…and related to the term are the portmanteau words ‘queef’, ‘kweef’, and ‘quiff’, all meaning ‘vaginal fart’ and derived from ‘quim’ in combination with ‘whiff’.