Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site erix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!enea!erix!nabiel From: nabiel@erix.UUCP (Nabiel Elshiewy) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Origin of that strongest of words Message-ID: <631@erix.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 00:44:24 EDT Article-I.D.: erix.631 Posted: Sun Oct 14 00:44:24 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 06:09:31 EDT References: <1559@uvacs.UUCP> Organization: L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 25 [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 !!!.