The poem in question (I don't know which it is but Google suggests some candidates) would've been intended to be very crude - but not in the same way as people hear that word now. I think it's very hard to make that kind of comparison as social realities were so different then. But yes, it's used in a pretty straightforward way in Chaucer, albeit in different spellings (she could get away with saying 'queynte' there...) and this is not so much later.
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Date: Tuesday, 16 October 2007 01:59 pm (UTC)