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From: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
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Subject: Re: Re: Origin of that strongest of words
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Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 12:53:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 10 12:53:36 1984
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> 
>     I hd never heard of 'nookie' as being slang for sexual intercourse.  Here
> at CWRU the Sigma Nu fraternity is afectiontely /* :-) */ clled the Nookies.
> I wonder if this has any significance?
> 
> 					Ryan McGuire

In my American Heritage Dictionary, New College Edition, I find:

nooky (nook'e) n. Vulgar Slang. Woman regarded as a sexual object.
[Origin obscure.]

It is not in the Second College Edition, however.  Don't know why.
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Steve Vance
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