New Slang or New Slang To ME

[snarlingcoyote]

Two new phrases have crept into my vocabulary recently.

"Making jake." This expression refers to someone who is "making bank". Example: I heard Todd was making jake now that he's the supervisor down at the plant.

"Somethin' somethin." aka "sumin sumin." This expression refers to favors of a ahem, adult nature. Example: Everybody knows she gets a little sumin sumin from Mark when her husband's playing golf on weekends.

Now, before I go to the urban dictionary and see their answers, I'm curious if anyone on the DIS board has heard these recently? I recently moved to a new geographic region and I'm wondering if these are dialectical expressions or new slang.

ETA: Urban dictionary knew about sumin sumin, but only in regards to female favors, so to speak. The entry was from 2003, but hasn't been popular (6 thumbs up, 8 thumbs down). (And yes, the two words are pronounced in a certain way that only people with the local accent can approximate. . .this is why I thought it might be regional.)


Jake. . .once I waded through all the personal vendettas and personal jokes. . .Jake meant "good fellow" or "good" or "all right" or "perfect" in the 1920's. So maybe that's where that one is coming from.

 

[HunnyPots]

The first one, I have never heard and have no idea about.
The second one, I have heard for the last few years but never as a sexual inuendo.

 

[paintnolish]

1st- Never heard of it!
2nd- Heard it being used for awhile

Here's one my teacher mentioned (it was a history of language class)..."finnah" as in "fixin' to" do something. I'd never heard of this until that class, but one of my college aged sisters had.

 

[brytorlyn]

Never heard of the first one but the second one " sumin sumin" I am familiar with it. I hear it often on sitcoms..to refer to "gettin some"....as in sexual favours.

 

[KristaTX]

I've never heard either one. But I've also never heard "making bank" .

 

[merryweather20]

Something, Something has to be +15 years old. My grandmother would know what it meant Frankly you wouldn't even have to say something something "a little hmm-hmm, hmmm-hmm" would suffice as well.

As with another psoter I've heard it on sitcoms and such, so I have a hard time beleiving its regional.

 

[pogo791]

Can't say I've heard the specific phrase "something something" (or sumin sumin), but I can well imagine if it is said with a wink, then it refers to sexual favors.

As for "making jake", that dates back to Prohibition, when it referred to making bootleg alcohol. Since Jamaican ginger was used quite a bit, the "jake" probably refers to Jamaica.

The phrase soon spawned "everything's jake", which meant "everything's OK". The phrase was used quite a bit in the movie "The Sting", which was also set during Prohibition.

From that to "making jake" in the sense of doing well (specifically, raking in the dough) is probably not too big a leap, but I've never heard it used that way. It's possible that two words have been mixed, "jake" and "jack". "Jack" is an old slang phrase for money, and so "making jack" would be making money.

Are you jake with that?

 

[Jennasis]

I've heard them both.

 

[onelilspark]

I know of the 2nd one. Never heard of the 1st.

 

[JMD]

Never heard of the first one. Second one has been around a long time.

 

[SydneyFalco]

I keep trying to start my own, but, try as I might, "whip -bam", "gleaning the pug", and "buffaloo" just haven't caught on.

 

[RadioNate]

I haven't heard the first.

Everyone I know either uses or would at least understand the 2nd. That one has been around for years. I can't remember a time not hearing it.

 

[paintnolish]

I keep trying to start my own, but, try as I might, "whip -bam", "gleaning the pug", and "buffaloo" just haven't caught on.

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