Teen language translation

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My teen uses foul language a lot of the time and although she does it when angry I think that my reaction is making it worse. So I'm trying to ignore the awful words. Now she's switched to using words I have to go and look up in the urban dictionary.

Even when she isn't angry or is being complimentary she's using words I don't recognise.
It would be really helpful to me if parents of other teens could share the popular words and what they mean so that I am not perpetually back-footed.
An example: these peaches are peng. Don't get the value peaches again. These ones are so much better. So Peng is 'better or the best quality'. In relation to peaches: extra delicious.
Or individually wrapped mini cheeses are 'boujie' which although the dictionary tells
me is derogatory and aimed at someone aspiring for a higher class (bourgouisie) is used by DD and her friends to mean 'special and fancy' and thus good.

So, help me out please: what words are your teens using that aren't necessarily obvious that would be useful to know . Thank you!

Word is 1980's hip hop slang

Apparently my DD is a swet. Not swot, but swet. To mean exactly the same as swot but it's swet now.

My phone really did not like me typing the above.

Thirsty - desperate

Moist - Not cool, soft, emotional, not 'manly' enough.
E.g. Boy 1: "I really like baking with my mum".
Boy 2: "That's moist bruv".

Finsta - fake social media profile used as a decoy to hide real social media profile from parents.

Ah the Stan makes sense now. I had forgotten she says "simp" a lot too.

Peak is used when you or someone else is in an embarrassing/unlucky situation - as far as I can tell, it's usually said when other people are having a bit of a laugh at your misfortune.

I wonder whether that comes from "pique"? Though I suspect if any teenager thought it did they wouldn't use it.

Wagwam comes from "what's going on?"

I grew up in inner London and spoke pretty much in slang as a teen. ‘Wage an’ was about in the 90s. It’s a Jamaican thing (‘Whats going on?’), but now I hear white kids in the suburbs using it. It’s funny.

My kids are living a very different life to my teens, out in the suburbs, much more ‘naice school etc...and it cracks me up when they occasionally drop a bit of slang.

12 yr old DD calls everyone ‘fam’ or ‘bruv’ (non relatives and females included ).

15 yr old DS tells me ‘it’s calm’ ‘I’m calm’ a lot. Every life situation is either ‘a mad ting’ (Not good) or ‘calm’ (good).

I work with some pretty tough teenagers, so usually get to know the ‘in’ words and phrases before my slightly more sheltered kids. Great for freaking them out and making them cringe when I drop one in to the conversation 🤣

wagwan

My DD is always "shipping" people, mainly people on some netflix show she's watching.
So what does the verb "to ship" mean?

Do people actually still use the word peng?

This thread is hilarious. I have teens who use these words, but as I also work with teens and early twenties I also happen to know what they mean! I even have staff first bump me when we let them in in shift

I offer you "mood" and "deep"

Mood is the current mood, or you are in a certain mood and agree. So someone says something like they are hungry, you reply mood, as you are also hungry.
Deep is take seriously. So she proper deeped that is she took it too seriously. Usually said when a joke goes wrong!

She also goes on about "deadnaming" people (a bad thing).

@ElectroMullet

My DD is always "shipping" people, mainly people on some netflix show she's watching. So what does the verb "to ship" mean?

Shipping. RelationSHIP. Therenfornina relationship with, getting together with etc. Also be careful of talking, chatting and linking before they ship. All mean different things.

Just say to her, stop throwing me shade bruh.

Or they would ship two people...they think they should get together.

Also "k" in reply to any message I ever send her

Why does DD say ‘bruv’ and DS ‘bruh’? I must ask them 😆

DS calls me 'bruv' or 'bro' all the time. He does it because he knows it drives me mad. He's also used most of the words/phrases already mentioned.
Last night he presented a new one 'he's got x on ropes'!
I was at a loss, it seems it's like a version of twisted around their little finger/x is in awe of him. I thought it was like in boxing where they say 'he's got him on the ropes now' e.g, nowhere to go, backed up to the wall. Apparently not - I know nothing!
It's like trying to decode constantly in our house and DS thinks it's hilarious we don't understand.

It’s a good thread this for making me feel young because I know almost all of these. ;) also I live in Sweden and have picked it up. Off the telly and so on - don’t know how you can miss it if you’re in the U.K.! Following to see if I can learn some new ones. Agree that a good tactic is to use them back at them

Don't forget "beef" when they have fallen out with someone!

And also "ok boomer" if you say anything remotely sensible. But I know what this one means

@AwaAnBileYerHeid

Do people actually still use the word peng?

Exactly. Tell your DD she's about 15 years late with that one

don’t know how you can miss it if you’re in the U.K.!

Depends what you watch on the TV really, I never hear anything like this on the programmes that I watch!

She also calls me "J Karen Rowling" if I get anything "wrong" regarding gender

Do they still say 'on fleek' for something that looks fashionable?