quim

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 cwm (“hollow”) is sometimes suggested, but the OED notes that this is "unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds".

• IPA^(key): /kwɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɪm

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quim (plural quims)

1. (vulgar, slang) The female genitalia; the vulva.
   • 1879, anonymous author, “The Wanton Lass”, in The Pearl, number 1:

     For one day, when amusing herself with this whim
     The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 18: Penelope]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 938:

     Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims?

   • 1970, Stephen Longstreet, Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madam, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 145:

     As for whores—they are sometimes daughters of fine homes peddling their quim and quiff for a thumbnail of cocaine or a tot of rot-gut whiskey.

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 2: Une Perm au Casino Hermann Goering, page 235:

     When she's done he licks the last few drops from his lips. More cling, golden clear, to the glossy hairs of her quim.

   • 2005, Margaret Carter, Maiden Flights, →ISBN, page 131:

     Her quim grew wet, ready to welcome it.

2. (vulgar, derogatory, synecdochically) An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person.

   Synonym: cunt

   • 2012, Joss Whedon, The Avengers, spoken by Loki (Tom Hiddleston):

     (to Black Widow) In every way, [ Clint Barton ] knows your fear! And then he'll wake…to see his good work…When he screams, I'll split his skull! This is my bargain, you mewling quim!

Borrowed from Scots queem. Compare English queem.

quim (comparative more quim, superlative most quim)

1. (Ulster) Affectedly nice, prim.
2. (Ulster) Moving with ease and precision.

• queem

Learned borrowing from Late Latin chymus, from Ancient Greek χυμός (khumós, “juice”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)

quim m (plural quims)

1. chyme

• “quim”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

From Portuguese quem.

quim

1. who, whom

   Vôs sâm quim? ― Who are you?

   Quim já vêm? ― Who came?

   Sâm di quim? ― Whose is it? (literally, “Of whom is it?”)

   Quim vosôtro tâ buscâ? ― Whom are you looking for?

2. (indefinite) those who; people who; anyone who

   Pa quim têm vagar di más

   For one who has an abundance of time

3. whoever, anyone

   Quim lembrá chapá na lado

   Whoever joins them

quim

1. some … some …

   Vêlo, tudo lô ficá; Quim azinha, quim vagá.

   Everyone will grow old; Some quickly, some slowly.

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