Gropecunt Lane was a name used in English-speaking towns and cities in the Middle Ages for streets where prostitutes conducted their business. In most cases, the name would appear to derive directly from the words grope (sexual touching), and cunt (female genitalia). At one point there were streets of this name in many cities in Britain and Ireland, though in most cases later sensibilities changed the name to some more polite variation.[1]
A "Gropecuntelane" is the earliest citation in the entry for the word "cunt" in the Oxford English Dictionary, which dates the reference to about 1230.
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