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Origin and history of nookie

nookie(n.)

also nooky, "sexual activity," slang, generally used by men, by 1928, perhaps from Dutch neuken "to copulate with," as well as other foreign words, but it is not impossible to connect it to nook (n.) on the notion of "an angle" or "a secluded spot."

Farmer & Henley in the 1890s list, among the slang words for "the monosyllable," naggie, niche, nick-in-the-notch, and on the French side le coin "nook." A psychological report by A.A. Brill in 1914 (New York Medical Journal, March 21) also suggests earlier sexual use: "[The patient attended a boys' school where the boys used to refer to the penis as 'nookie,' " which word, Brill writes, "was well known to all the boys."

The adjective nooky "full of nooks, nook-like" is recorded from 1813.

also from 1928

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nook(n.)

c. 1300, noke, "angle formed by the meeting of two lines; a corner of a room," a word of unknown origin. Possibly from Old Norse and connected with Norwegian dialectal nokke "hook, bent figure," or from Old English hnecca "neck," but the sense evolution would be difficult. OED considers the similar Celtic words to be borrowings from English. Meaning "remote or secluded place" is by late 14c.

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