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What is the nicest sounding word you know but it actually has a terrible meaning? I’ll start: “Sootikin”. Sounds like a cute cat’s name, but in reality it means a small mouse-shaped deposit formed in the vaginal cleft of poor women who did not wear undergarments.
They were common until the 19th century. A sootikin built up over several weeks/months of not washing. It was composed of particles of dirt, sweat, and vaginal/menstrual discharge. When it reached a certain size it tended to work loose and drop from under the woman's skirt.
The 17th century diarist Samuel Pepys mentioned men employed in London churches to sweep up sootikins after services. There is a scurrilous anonymous account of a sootikin being allegedly found under Queen Anne’s chair in St Paul’s Cathedral in London during a service.
It is rumoured that the nursery rhyme “Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?” refers to this incident. It contains all of these ingredients – London, a Queen, a chair and a “mouse” underneath the chair. Now you know.
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For years I thought it was a treatise by Voltaire
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