# Does anybody know what "nooch" means? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 16, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-what-nooch-means/93769 "2001-11-16T18:06:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-what-nooch-means/93769/1 "2001-11-16T18:06:05Z")
Well? I’ve seen it used on the net sporadically, and heard Jason Mewes (Jay of Jay and Silent Bob fame) use it in a movie or two. But “snooch to the nooch” doesn’t really make it easy to figure out what the word means by context… (And it also makes me wonder what “snooch” means.) Are these possibly just nonsense words? ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-what-nooch-means/93769/2 "2001-11-16T18:49:03Z")
I’m guessing it’s a nonsense word. Nagga-Nooch Snoochie-Boochies Bickety-Bam and so on. Jay rules! ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-what-nooch-means/93769/3 "2001-11-16T19:02:58Z")
(scholarly tone) Snootch is an archaic past tense of snatch (v.t.) and nooch, in this phrase, is a rhyming-slang corruption of nth, as in the nth degree. In other words, snatched to a superlative degree. (/scholarly tone) Harumph. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-what-nooch-means/93769/4 "2001-11-16T20:34:34Z")
[Covered before.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=85436) In my definitive answer in that thread, I state that it’s what Jay calls joints/pot. For example, when offering joints to potential customers, Jay holds the bag and exclaims, “Snootchie nootchies!” Or, when suggesting that someone get high, he exclaims, “Snootch to the nootch!” ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-what-nooch-means/93769/5 "2001-11-16T21:30:10Z")
Hmm… Perhaps this is a different usage then: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=65454](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=65454) ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-what-nooch-means/93769/6 "2001-11-19T15:04:58Z")
Can anybody tell me what it means the context of that thread? ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-what-nooch-means/93769/7 "2001-11-19T19:21:58Z")
Why not e-mail the person who wrote it and ask him/her? ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-what-nooch-means/93769/8 "2001-11-19T20:18:53Z")
And what is the proper spelling? I’ve seen [“noonch”](http://www.viewaskew.com/jsbstash/clerks.html)(check the New Years shirt), “nootch”, and “nooch”. Since the first spelling is the one listed on the ViewAskew website, I think that’s the proper spelling although the last two seem to be the more popular ones in web searches. My WAG- It’s an all-purpose word, similar to “smurf”. ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-know-what-nooch-means/93769/9 "2001-11-19T22:44:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rastahomie \* > \*\*Why not e-mail the person who wrote it and ask him/her? \*\* Well that would be just too easy, wouldn’t it? “Sorry! That user has specified that they do not wish to receive emails through this board.” Besides, he/she/it hasn’t posted for almost two months; could be a short-timer. **Mojo** : Did you notice the picture shows it as “nootch” while the text says “noonch”? I mean, if you can’t count on web designers for spelling, who can you trust? 😛