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Thread #82629   Message #1514406
Posted By: Azizi
03-Jul-05 - 11:16 AM
Thread Name: Slang & Other Colloquialisms in Music
Subject: RE: Slang & Other Colloquialisms in Music
I figure everybody knows what 'Sock it to me' means, right?

In case you don't, let's just say that it means 'Give it to me."
And 'it' isn't a pair of socks or a punch in the jaw. "It" means sex of course.

And what about that phrase "Awww, sookie sookie now!"

Well, first off, I usually have seen it written "Ah! Sukey Sukey now"

"Sukey" is a nickname for the Hebrew female name "Susan' {Shoshannah}. Also, IMO, "Sukey" may have been used by enslaved African Americans from Akan speaking areas of Ghana {such as the Ashanti} as a modification of or nickname for the Akan day name "Akosua" {female born on Sunday}.

At any rate, if the nickname 'Sukey' originally had anything at all to do with the exclamation "Ah Sukey, Sukey!", I don't think it retained that connection for very long.

It's my guess that "Sukey" has much more to do with the word "suck".
The exclamation is still used [among African Americans anyway] to praise a person's {usually a woman's} sensuous physical appearance, or their sexy dancing, or their hot actions-yaknowwhenImean...

It's a groove thing.



Azizi