Talk:noonie
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Overlordnat1 in topic Shortened form nun/noon?
First usage?
editLexico says this word was first used by Bernard Kops in the 60s but the earliest I could find on GoogleBooks was 2000, so I added that quote. If we can prove it dates from before 1997 then it blows the online theory that the word comes from the Teletubbies character Noo-noo out of the water (though perhaps not the rival theory that it comes from a corruption of ‘nun’). Overlordnat1 (talk) 22:58, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Not only does the shortened form nun/noon appear in celebrity GoggleBox (spoken by Anne-Marie) but I’ve just heard it used on S17E5 of ordinary Gogglebox (spoken by the gay hairdresser) Overlordnat1 (talk) 23:42, 13 February 2022 (UTC)