 which suggests the answer "a penis" but has the correct answer "an onion".Examples of sexual innuendo and double-entendre occur in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" (14th century), in which the Wife of Bath's Tale is laden with double entendres.These include her use of the word "queynte" to describe both domestic duties (from the homonym "quaint") and genitalia ("queynte" being the root of "cunt", a vulgar English word for vulva).