Daddysredhead -> RE: Cunt - what is the origin of the word? (8/8/2011 9:55:48 AM)
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ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss
Seems pretty obviously Germanic...
I am ze German strudel... I have ze fetish...
Moonhead -> RE: Cunt - what is the origin of the word? (8/8/2011 2:25:15 PM)
It's actually Middle English (by way of anglo saxon), and wasn't originally seen as being as beastly a word as it is now: thus the twat joke in Twelfth Night. (The n was added a lot later.)
Freebounds derivation sounds good, but is (as has been pointed out already) utter bullshit.