The "two Beastly Monosyllables"

[Joel S. Berson]

In a quack's touting of his cures (1707), he tells of a young woman
who would "talk Bawdy " before everyone, "nay, name the two Beastly
Monosyllables before the Doctor and Lecturer of the Parish."

What might the to Beastly Monosyllables" have been in 1707?

Joel

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