Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hounx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hounx!kort From: kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Sex is Funny to Eskimos - need clarification on "nookie" Message-ID: <567@hounx.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 17:39:36 EST Article-I.D.: hounx.567 Posted: Mon Feb 3 17:39:36 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Feb-86 01:09:21 EST References: <718@cylixd.UUCP> <293@unirot.UUCP> <548@hounx.UUCP> <2962@umcp-cs.UUCP>, <1227@lll-crg.ARpA> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 4 Andy Beals asks about the origins of the word "nookie". This is getting into a little off-color slang; the dictionary says the origin is obscure, but may be a derivative of "nook", a little hiding place. Please don't ask me to elaborate. --Barry Kort