#Origin of the word pommie plus#

Denoting such a position that a hollow is left below an object, Galloway. Comfortable as including the idea of defence from cold, Ayrs. to Queme, to please, to satisfy, is undoubtedly the same, used in a secondary or oblique sense because a thing is said to to please or satisfy, that fits our ideas or wishes.Īs for cosh, volume 1 of Jamieson, Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1825) offers these entries:ĬOSH, adj. Jamieson also notes, in connection with the verb 'to Queem' (meaning 'To fit exactly as, to queem the mortice, or joint in wood'): The idea is evidently borrowed from joints that are exactly fitted, and adhere closely to one another. But this does not properly express the sense.

262 'Quim and Cosh, pliable and fit ' Gl. 'It shall be observed, that they shall fall in more than ever, into an intimacy with the malignant enemies to the work of God, and grow quim and cosh with them while they are not only cold toward the truly tender, but cruel against them.' McWard's Contend. used, as conjoined with Cosh, to denote intimacy. Applied to what is made close and tight, ibid. When the year grown auld brings water cauld,/We fle till our ha's sae queem. Neat, fit, filled up to the general level, Upp.

John Jamison, Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, volume 2 (1825) has entries for the (possibly unrelated) adjectives queem/quim and quim: This same definition, with 'private parts of a woman' in place of 'monosyllable' appears in Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence (1811), which presents itself as Grose's original compilation 'now considerably altered and enlarged, with the modern changes and improvements, by a member of the Whip Club.' So unless Egan is the anonymous member, the inclusion of quim antedates his administration of Grose's dictionary. The monosyllable: perhaps, from the Spanish quemar, to burn.

Pierce Egan's 1823 revision of Grose generally uses the term monosyllable in place of 'private parts.' This edition of the book removes several out-of-date terms from the 1785, and introduces fourteen new ones: black joke, bottomless pit, brown madam (or brown miss), Buckinger's boot, bun, dumb glutton, Eve's custom house, hat (or old hat), Miss Laycock, monosyllable (or venerable monosyllable), mother of all saints, tuzzy-muzzy, water-mill, and (at long last) quim. My guess is that **** does not stand for quim.

#Origin of the word pommie plus#

Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785) has nine slang terms for 'the private parts' of a girl or woman-to wit: bumbo, Carvel's ring, cauliflower, cock alley (or cock lane), commodity, madge, money, muff, and notch, plus an unidentified tenth one, ****, that appears in the entry for cauliflower.