'Queynte': Some Rime and Some Reason on a Chaucer[ian] Pun

Author / Editor
Dane, Joseph A.

Title
'Queynte': Some Rime and Some Reason on a Chaucer[ian] Pun

Published
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 95 (1996): 497-514.

Description
Larry Benson's understanding of "queynte" as an adjective (SAC 9 [1987], no. 54) is untenable since it depends on a rhyme pattern inadmissible in Chaucer. The true meaning is the traditional one of "pudendum."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.