Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also queam, quimho, quimmie, quimmy, quin, whim) the vagina.

1613		Tumult (Rawlinson ms) in Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provincial Wds (1847) n.p.: I tell you Hodge, in sooth it was not cleane, it was as black as ever was Malkin’s queme.
1655		ballad in Burford Bawdy Verse (1984) 224: On her Quim and herself depends for support, / And is better than all the Prime Ladies at Court.
1705–07		N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:3 26: When I had view’d the Ladies Limbs, And all their Members, but their Whims ... Out popp’d ... An Ethopian merry Crack, With Lady’s Legs, but Sampson’s Back ... So strongly built ... As if a Score of drudging Porters, Could not have tir’d her strenuous Quarters.
c.1707		‘The Harlot Un-Mask’d’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) IV 111: Tho’ her Hands they are red, and her Bubbies are coarse, Her quim, for all that, may be never the worse.
1732-1820		Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland (1892) 25: ’Tis slavery to detain the hand when the quim won’t work from aridity.
1768		Gentleman’s Bottle-Companion 61: I wonder how young men can fancy my quin, / It’s as black as the devil, and scarlet within.
1782		poem title Whim!!! Or, The Maid-stone Bath.
c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Quim, the private parts of a woman: perhaps from the Spanish quemar, to burn.
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1824		J. Winston Drury Lane Jrnl (1974) 10 May 87: ‘Elliston’ told Miss Cubitt before others his sleeve buttons he kept because they were the colour of his wife’s quim.
1834		‘Those Ladies Queams’ in Black Joke 6: Those Ladies Queams its hard to please, / Tho’ for a time we give them ease, / They’re ever craving after more. / Those Ladies Queams are quite a bore.
1836		‘A Celebrated Parody On The King, God Bless Him’ in Cockchafer 6: Here’s a health to Quim, and God bless it!
1842		‘The Night Squall’ in Nobby Songster 3: She shone in the light of a penny glim, / As she pinched and played with her hairy q--m!
c.1850		The C — , The Open C — [broadside] I love, I love. oh how I love to swim, / In the deep flowing luscious, greedy quim— / When every mad shove drowns my p—k, / As I push it in both long and thick.
c.1863		‘Philo Cunnus’ Festival of Passions II. 7: Gently pulling up my shift his hand touched my thigh, and instantly I sighed as it was laid on my quim.
1879		‘The Wanton Lass’ in Pearl 1 July 30: Her quim had long itched, and she wanted, I vow, / A jolly good fucking, but couldn’t tell how.
1879		[G.A. Sala et al.] Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 28: Now as much fucking makes it wet and swimmy, / here’s a large syringe to wash out the quimmy.
1884		‘Experiences of a Cunt Philosopher’ in Randiana 115: A large forest of hair [...] while beneath it I saw as neat a little quimbo as one could wish for.
1888–94		‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) I 30: The redness of the line in Mary-Ann’s quim astonished us.
1893		‘Bob Sterling’ Town-Bull 120: [She] soon had tucked my tail in her pretty little quim.
c.1900		‘Ramrod’ Nocturnal Meeting 27: Tickle my quim.
1902		D. St John Memoirs of Madge Buford 28: ‘Her quim is not there, it’s further front’.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 526: Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims?
c.1928		‘Boob McNutt “The Meaning of Jazz”’ [comic strip] in B. Adelman Tijuana Bibles (1997) 19: You horrid thing – sticking your tongue into my quim.
1939		H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 190: Let me take a good look at her quim ... yes, quim, you know what I mean.
c.1940		‘The Family’ in Bold (1979) 85: The gentry came from far and wide / Upon that noble quim to ride.
1947		D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 314: It doesn’t matter a quimful of cold tea to them.
1956		‘The Great Plenipotentiary’ in ‘Count P. Vicarion’ Bawdy Ballads II: Through thick and through thin , bowel deep he dashed in, / Till her quim frothed like cream in a dairy.
a.1961		‘Charlotte the Harlot’ in G. Logsdon Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing (1995) xviii: One day in the canyon, no pants on her quim, / A rattlesnake saw her and flung himself in.
1970		C. Brown Down All the Days 133: Hair or no hair [...] a quim is a quim no matter what. Right lads?
1976		M. Millington Playbirds 7: ‘The cock moved in ever-increasing pushes into the hot depths of my quimmie’.
1979		‘Lulu’ in Bold (1979) 131: She couldn’t call it [i.e. a baby] Lulu / ’Cos the bugger had no quim.
1983		T. Paulin ‘Yes, the Maternity Unit’ in Liberty Tree 35: Limp king dick has got the chop / but Quim and Bum must slog it out.
1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 115: The Quim Bar (which was called that because of the fact that quite a few of the leading hookers frequented it).
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 137: She jammed a finger up her quim.
1996		(con. 1964-65) B. Thorpe Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 17: The sight of that beautiful quim smiling at me [etc].
2000		T. Udo Vatican Bloodbath 77: It wasn’t seemly for the Pontiff to go poking his pronger where it wasn’t wanted, such as the anuses of young choirboys or the collapsing quims of octogenarian whores.
2016		I. Wood Femarine 72: The queen was in dire need of having her royal quimmie [...] serviced.

2. a woman; women collectively, viewed in a sexual context.

1909		C.B. Chrysler White Slavery 45: Say, Bell, you know that little red-headed quim that boards over at Scar Face Annie’s. She took a dime’s worth last night.
1911		Indianpolis Star 2 Aug. 5: Stage hands, who were anxious to learn the prevailing words of slang of the season, stood with their jaws agape during the afternoon when the chorus girls twisted the English language into hard knots for their benefit. [...] ‘We are not going to be chorus girls, dears, warblers, chickens, quails or squabs any longer. The correct dope this year is [...] quims.’.
1935		W. Smith Bessie Cotter 48: No dirty little quim can hold out on me.
1970		(con. 1950s) H. Junker ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen Age of Rock 2 (1970) 102: But mostly the eternal search for a little [...] quim.
1976		R. Carver Stories (1985) 27: ‘Look at the ass on that’ [...] ‘Some jokers like their quim fat’.
1989		H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 13: Beaver, cunt, piece (of ass), pussy, quim, snatch, tail, and twat are among the words that are used to denote both a woman and her genitals.
1993		S. King Dolores Claiborne 43: There, you nasty old quim.
2006		D. Mitchell Black Swan Green 79: It takes a lighter to impress the quality quim.

3. (US gay) the anus.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 19: the rectal opening, anus [...] quim (obs, ’30s).

4. (US gay/prison) a heterosexual inmate, subjected to homosexual rape.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 161: sexually oppressed, constantly raped victim; usually straight [...] quim.

5. a general derog. term of abuse.

1998

Bug (Aus.) 28 Jan. 🌐 Take it from the Bash: Michael Klim is just another bald quim.