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From: nabiel@erix.UUCP (Nabiel Elshiewy)
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Subject: Re: Origin of that strongest of words
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Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 00:44:24 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 14 00:44:24 1984
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[Here comes the ultimate truth]

>>> ... the current slang word for sexual intercourse is "neuken" ...

>>  Where I come from (Scotland, a slang word for sexual intercourse
>>  is 'nookie'.  Gives more credence to the argument that English is
>>  just a bastardised form of Dutch.

> Where I came from (Minnesota, U.S.A.), a slang word for sexual intercourse
> was "nookie", at least as early as the 1930's.  The earliest date for
> this usage in Wentworth & Flexner's  Dictionary of American Slang  is
> 1928.  When did you have in mind that English became a bastardized
> Dutch?

This word (either neuken , nookie, or something in between) is of ARABIC
origin. Its noun is pronounced something like "Naik". The word in all its
forms is well documented in the work of Abu-Nuwas, an arabic poet who lived
0756 - 0814. His work was devoted to honour both sex and spirits, and his
life was a model for that of Oscar Wilde.

So the claim that English became a bastardized Dutch is not true.
The truth is that both are bastardised form of Arabic.

PS. The word is still in use as a slang is some arabic countries !!!.