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Fri 1 Mar, 2013 11:36 am
The word "nooksing" (not sure about the spelling since it's always said and never written) has been used in my family for generations. Nobody knows where it started or how it's really spelled. We just all know what it means (to us).
In our family, "nooksing" is the act of doing unnecessary and usually pointless things. A child who is sent to brush her teeth, but stops to pet the cat or rearrange the dolls in the doll house is said to be "nooksing".
Right now, I am "nooksing" instead of working. I am a "nookser". I am someone who "nookses". I have been known to "nooks" on occasion. "Nooks" rhymes with "books".
Does anyone know more about this? Or is it just an odd piece of family tradition? It's possible it came from a foreign branch of the family, like the Welsh side.
@thesierras,
Is this a Barnes and Noble ad?
@thesierras,
It sounds like a goofy family private joke/word.
None of the definitions in the Urban Dictionary come close to what you define here.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nooks
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nooksing
And no, I don't believe that the act of stopping to pet a cat is an unnecessary and/or pointless act.
Why don't you compose a definition for the term and submit it to the Urban Dictionary. Can't hurt:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/add.php
@thesierras,
Yeah, that sounds like a private in-group joke, a one family word. Never saw it or heard it until today and I'm 74 years of age.
@thesierras,
In Pa Dutch its Futzing or just "futzen"
@farmerman,
OK, that one I'm familiar with. It's the same in Yiddish.
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