Gropecunt Lane (/ˈɡroʊpkʌnt/) was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution...
22 KB (2,397 words) - 11:15, 12 November 2024
been used as an orchard. In the 13th century, Magpie Lane was known as Gropecunt Lane or Grope Lane, as it was an area where prostitutes plied their trade...
4 KB (404 words) - 16:44, 9 September 2022
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lovers' lanes. Gropecunt Lane Lover's Leap Cruising for sex "lovers' lane". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster...
8 KB (870 words) - 07:27, 31 August 2024
Sexual harassment Non-penetrative sex Eve teasing Frotteurism Debagging Gropecunt Lane "Grope, verb". Cambridge Dictionary. The Age, 12 June 2019, 'Disgusting':...
14 KB (1,356 words) - 22:46, 24 October 2024
the name; Gropecunt Lane in 13th-century Wells became Grope Lane, and then in the 19th century, Grove Lane. In the city of York, Grapcunt Lane (grāp being...
34 KB (3,330 words) - 13:33, 9 November 2024
to Whore's Street and Grope Cunt Lane in the city centre, down by the docks. Both Whore's Street and Gropecunt Lane (a name found in many English medieval...
11 KB (1,351 words) - 09:36, 10 November 2024
of a placename: an Oxford street called Gropecunt Lane, c. 1230, now by the name of Grove Passage or Magpie Lane. Use of the word as a term of abuse is...
77 KB (8,698 words) - 21:29, 11 November 2024
the church of St Pancras, Soper Lane, a notorious district of sexual vice including one street called Gropecunt Lane. In 1310 Edward II ordered the abolition...
98 KB (11,109 words) - 15:11, 31 October 2024
resident claiming that the street is "part of the tradition of Shepshed". Gropecunt Lane Fugging, Upper Austria Shitterton "Archers Way, Conisbrough, Doncaster...
11 KB (1,013 words) - 17:38, 7 June 2024
narrow lanes opening off the south side of Cheapside had a long association with prostitution, suggested by the names of the nearby Gropecunt and Popkirtle...
70 KB (9,280 words) - 13:17, 11 November 2024