English
nookie
Nookie may come from Dutch neuken ‘to fuck’.
- Dutchc. 1500–presentneuken‘to fuck’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1964nookie
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Dutchc. 1500–presentneuken‘to fuck’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1964nookie
Earliest quotation: 1964, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn: “Yeah. Maybe we/ll^([sic]) make the rounds of the bars.…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ken- ‘to press’
Today it means
noun Sex or other sexual activity, especially if illicit.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Dutch neuken / nookie