The "Oxford English Dictionary" defines the word "cunt" as "The female external genital organs" and notes "Its currency is restricted in the manner of other taboo-words: see the small-type note s.v. FUCK v." During the Middle Ages the word may often have been considered merely vulgar, having been in common use in its anatomical sense since at least the 13th century. In "The Miller's Tale", Geoffrey Chaucer writes "And prively he caughte hire by the queynte" (and intimately he caught her by her crotch), and "Philotus" (1603) mentions "put doun thy hand and graip hir cunt." Gradually though the word became used more as the obscenity it is generally considered to be today. In John Garfield's "Wandring Whore II" (1660) the word is applied to a woman, specifically a whore—"this is none of your pittiful Sneakesbyes and Raskalls that will offer a sturdy C— but eighteen pence or two shillings, and repent of the business afterwards". Francis Grose's "A Classical Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue" (1785) lists the word as "C**t. The "chonnos" of the Greek, and the "cunnus" of the Latin dictionaries; a nasty name for a nasty thing: "un con Miege"."