Green’s Dictionary of Slang

the vagina; also attrib.

c.1386		Chaucer Miller’s Tale line 169: And prively he caughte hire by the queynte, And seyde, ‘Ywis, but if ich have my wille, For deerne love of thee, lemman, I spille’.
1597		Forman in Rowse Case Books III 63: The woman hath a mind to the quent [...] There came an old quent merchant unto me.
1598		Florio Worlde of Wordes n.p.: Conno, a womans pruie parts or quaint.
1610		Jonson Alchemist II iii: The Superintendent / To all the quainter traffickers, in town.
1611		Florio Queen Anna’s New World of Words n.p.: Fesso [...] a woman’s priuy chinke, quaint, or water-box. [...] Pottuta, that hath a cunt, cunted, quainted.
1631		J. Shirley Traitor II i: Are all the brothels rifled? no quaint piece Left him in Florence, that will meet his hot And valiant luxury?
c.1650		Marvell ‘To his Coy Mistress’ in Aitken Poems and Satires I (1892) 57: Then worms shall try That long preserv’d virginity: And your quaint honour turn to dust.
1661		G. Rogers Horn Exalted in Spurgeon Five hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism (1925) 74: Read and beware how that ye firk, Least the repentance stool o’th Kirk, Prove the reward of your queint wirk.
1725		N. Ward Amorous Bugbears 35: The gaudy Brimstone, with a Minted Face, Allures the swarthy Yew ... she that deals among the sober Saints, Like them must have her Quirpo’s & her Quaints.
1840		‘The Female Gamester’ in Facetious Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) III 272: If I had four, she’d show me more, / Her quint did make me mad.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.