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nookie en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈnʊki/
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

Possibly from Dutch neuken (“to fuck”). Compare cognate and synonymous German Low German nöken, nucken.

Meanings

  1. (slang, uncountable) Sex or other sexual activity, especially if illicit.
    • I came home early and caught them on the couch having a bit of nookie.
    • “All the guys I'd want to date live in Coeur d'Alene.” She slipped into the sweater, looking far better in it than Holly had. “I don't have time to drive hours for my nookie.” 2012, Jill Shalvis, Rescue My Heart, Penguin, →ISBN, page 190:
    • I told you you’d get more nookie than you can shake a stick at if you tell the girls that your wife died. It’s the sympathy vote. 1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, →ISBN, page 43:
    • Some men only put up with them because their male ego has convinced them that sooner or later, you'll give in to your natural attraction to them and they'll get some nookie. 1996, Elizabeth Kuster, Exorcising Your Ex: How to Get Rid of the Demons of Relationships Past, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
    • Yeah. Maybe we/ll^([sic]) make the rounds of the bars. I could use a little nookie. Thats^([sic]) what I need, a good piece of ass. 1964, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, New York: Grove Press, page 281:
    • If you want Cookie's nookie, then ditch the bitch. 2015, Lee Daniels, Danny Strong, “The Lyon's Roar”, in Empire, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Cookie Lyon:
  2. (slang, uncountable) An attractive woman, when considered as a sex object.
    • I’m smelling like dope and I’m shooting for more / Eyes glued to the nookie moving slow on the floor 2002, People Under the Stairs, “The Suite For Beaver Part 2”, in O.S.T.:

Forms

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nooky alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

you don't get your nookie where you get your cookies · nookie-bookie

Translations (11)

fi muhinointi (sexual intercourse) · de Geschlechtsverkehr (sexual intercourse) · de Fick (sexual intercourse) · fr baise (sexual intercourse) · fi seksi (sexual intercourse) · de Schäferstündchen (sexual intercourse) · sv sex (sexual intercourse) · sh ševa (sexual intercourse) · es polvo (sexual intercourse) · fi rakastelu (sexual intercourse) · hi चुदाई (sexual intercourse)

nookie en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈnʊki/
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

Possibly from or related to German Nuckel (“pacifier; teat”), nuckeln (“to suck”), both attested from the 17th century, in which case the German brand name NUK, though officially an acronym, could be named after the generic word.

Meanings

  1. (US) A pacifier.

Forms

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nookies Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

noogie

Synonyms

dummy · dodie · bink · bo-bo · comforter · pippy · piece · binky · paci · soother · nookie

wikidata: Q152596