Etymograph

English

nookie

Nookie may come from Dutch neuken ‘to fuck’.

  1. Dutchc. 1500–presentneuken1‘to fuck’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1964nookie1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English nookie
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1964, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn: “Yeah. Maybe we/ll^([sic]) make the rounds of the bars.…”.

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Dutchc. 1500–presentneukenWiktionary, English nookie‘to fuck’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1964nookieWiktionary, English nookie. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1964, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn: “Yeah. Maybe we/ll^([sic]) make the rounds of the bars.…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *ken- ‘to press’

recent, nod, incinerate, recency, cinerea, nosh, 20 more

Today it means

noun Sex or other sexual activity, especially if illicit.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “nookie”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Dutch neuken / nookie

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