Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site qantel.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!intelca!qantel!stv From: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Re: Origin of that strongest of words Message-ID: <232@qantel.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 12:53:36 EDT Article-I.D.: qantel.232 Posted: Wed Oct 10 12:53:36 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 05:50:37 EDT References: <1559@uvacs.UUCP> <1206@cwruecmp.UUCP> Organization: MDS Qantel, Hayward, CA Lines: 18 > > 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. -- Steve Vance {ucbvax,ihnp4,zehntel,onyx}!dual!qantel!stv Qantel Corporation, Hayward, CA