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Subject: Origin of that strongest of words
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Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 15:23:18 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  6 15:23:18 1984
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>> ... 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?

          Gordon Fisher
          ...uvacs!gmf