"knock" = "vagina", 1664?

[Jonathon Green]

Mark A. Mandel wrote:
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>> = "nook"? related to modern "nookie"?
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Jon L suggests 'origin uncertain' and I wouldn't argue with that, but my
take on _nookie_ is that it descends either from the earlier _nug_: to
fondle, to indulge in sexual foreplay, to have sexual intercourse
(itself linked to dialect _nug_, to jog with the elbow, to strike); or
possibly from Dutch slang _neuken_, to fuck. The OED,. in case you
haven't looked, is also uncertain, but suggests a link to _nook_, an
out-of-the-way corner, seeing _nook_, I assume, as another synonym for
vagina (although neither JEL, as so far published, nor I have any
examples thereof.)

JG

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