Teen language translation

[ODFOx]

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!

Beef isn’t new either. I’ve had beef with people for years

Ship = worship. Because two syllables is one too many.

@TodaysFishIsTroutALaCreme

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.

The teenagers told me that comes from "sweat head", as in thinking a lot/putting a lot of effort into one's academic performance.

'Twas "boffin" in the 90s where I'm from.

DD says grind, as in she's working hard from grindstone I guess.
Also, 'I'm shook!' as in I'm surprised.

@ElectroMullet

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

This is my new favourite insult 😂

The one I keep hearing is 'spill the tea' - used where us older folk would say 'spill the beans'.

DH and I use teenage speak as a pisstake in front of DS in an attempt to make him realise how ridiculous he sounds!
He cringes and rolls his eyes and tells us that we are too old to use teenage words and we all end up laughing about it!

Peng and En fleek are still being used - by kids not born when they were first coined!

Mine says Leng is mega Peng.....

😂😂 I love this.

Mine say....

Peng
Sick
Bruv
Yeet
Binf
Mush
Cushty

Fuck knows !!!! Leave them to it 😳

DS says "bet fam" to me a lot. This seems to be a good thing.

I just tried these on 12 year old DS1 (S2 in Scotland). He got most of them except the ones I thought of as a bit English - Peng and wagwan.
Him and his pals use Shan a lot - "that's pure shan, man" but that's definitely an easy coast Scotland thing.

Cushty has been around forever. I though it was a word lifted from Hindi but it's apparently Romany (some Indian connection there perhaps tho).

Ds is 11 and uses a lot of these. It’s like having a foreign exchange student in the house sometimes, no clue what he’s in about.

Latest one is “I’m not capping”.

“There were some year 10 roadmen smoking outside school mum, I’m not even capping.”

“Not even capping, my baguette was like 2 feet long!”

Wagwan is Jamaican patois.

It's a greeting and a question.

What's going on?/how's it going?

Wha' g'wan?

I look up everything.

piffmpls.com/blogs/news-1/roadman-style-guide

She is dating a 'Ro'man' so I worked out the road man bit and came back to her for clarification with my internet definition: school age wannabe gangstas who hang about at the back of MacDonalds looking for trouble ( nice!). Her response? ' He hates McDonalds Mum so that cant be right'
So proud
Thanks for all of these. I'm filing them away. Please keep them coming!

Dd says the kids at school say 'That's calm'. I think it means when they have agreed on something so there is no argument to be had.

A ‘road man’ @ODFOx @AlexaShutUp is someone who deals drugs, usually on the estates but could be County Lines too.

And sniggering at Jamaican patois doesn’t feel right......in fact quite racist

Ds rarely uses any of these..perhaps in Scotland we arent up on yoof speak from the city.
He does say "how do you like them apples?" which makes me laugh.

This has made me laugh. I’m only 26 but I’ve no clue about most of this slang.
I’m dreading my DS’s turning into teenagers

Throw hands is the new one here. Meaning to beat someone up.

Everything is sick. Good.

Gossiping is spilling the tea.

DS uses ‘fam’ a lot. When told to get off the iPad he will retort with ‘wacha gonna do bout it fam” in a fake, American gangsta accent, whilst distorting his hands into some very peculiar shapes.

He is he epitome of a white, middle class, private school kid. He sounds utterly ridiculous and I’ve told him if he talks like that in the streets of Lewisham he’s likely to get himself stabbed.

And sniggering at Jamaican patois doesn’t feel right......in fact quite racist

Nobody is sniggering at Jamaican patois per se...rather at a bunch of white English kids using it to look cool.

@MmeSzyszkoBohusz

Ship = worship. Because two syllables is one too many.

worship?

Ship is essentially a relationship eg Ginny and Harry from Harry Potter would be Hinny, kara and mon-el is Karamel.

“OMG I really ship Dramione” as an example, as you like the relationship