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!

I get "that's deep" for serious, "im shook" for surprised, and "what's the beef/tea?" for gossip.
Learning loads on this thread that I can make DD eyeroll at me!!

"Drippy" or "the drip" when describing cool clothes

Teen: your outfit's kinda drippy
Teen: this hoody is the drip

Me:

DD is randomly shipping Harry & Louis from 1D at the min. Apparently many Arabs want them to get together 🤷‍♀️
Bougie means fabulous and lush to her.
Road men are rough as fuck lads wearing black with hoods up thinking they’re hard, smoking and possibly drugs connected.
Sick is good. Beef is a fallout. Spilling the tea is gossiping.

*STANS not Arabs

Same is one that threw me. It was on a WhatsApp conversation. I cant remember what it was about but the single word same reply, was not relevant to what I said. I'm like whut?
Dc has used yeet aswell, I looked that one up and its originally to do with basketball.
K also in reply to messages, because ok is clearly too difficult to type.
Dc never uses slang when face to face though.

We get "oof" a lot too, I think it means ouch?

Deadnaming is using a name that somebody has decided they no longer wish to be called.

I work in a primary school, so catch the kids using odd bits and bobs of the daft bollocks their teenager siblings are using. Lots of fam and tight. Less of the others.

DS1, who's only 8 uses 'sick' to mean good, or 'well sick' - very good. He's also started saying 'bruv' and 'bruh'.
I guess he's picked it up from kids at school who have older siblings. DS2 (aged 6) has started to use them too.
They come out with other random words too which I imagine they've picked up from watching youtubers!

Enjoying "We vibin" on the window of one of the isolating student blocks in Dundee!

@AlexaShutUp how do you know all the people on here commenting have ‘white kids’ - are you just assuming everyone is like you?

Either way I’m not sure that ‘white kids’ using patois is a particularly amusing thing. Language evolves. Don’t be an arsehole

Things may be 'pog' here. That's good I think. Someone posted about Champ poggers recently but apparently pog is just short for poggers.

Sup my guy, or yo my slime is what I get texted from DS2.

I think it's affectionate.

Peng has been and gone. I get told things aren't that deep, which means they aren't an issue.

Roadman is what we would have called a plastic in my day, a wannabe gangsta/drug dealer type. Not good.

I used to get its calm now I get all zen.

I like trying them out on his mates

I learnt this week that 'clapped ' means unattractive.
'Not gonna lie' irritates me.
DD keeps saying 'to be fair '
because her boyfriend does.

I'm trying to think what my era used in the eighties but have drawn a blank. Wally?

I think they'll look back in years to come and cringe. Much like older folk probably do now at groovy, outtasight and all those other hip terms from 50 years ago.

@AlexaShutUp how do you know all the people on here commenting have ‘white kids’ - are you just assuming everyone is like you?

Erm, no actually. Seems like you might be the one making assumptions as my dd happens to be mixed race. Not really sure what that has to do with it though.

Pog is a new one that's made it to my area. A student asked me if I knew what it meant, I attempted to explain the playground game we played in the 90s and felt about 100 doing so! The idea we got toys (tazos) in our crisps blew their mind

This thread actually makes me look forward to my. 1yo growing up so I can experience this stuff

My youngest spouted completely incoherent bollocks this week to me. I've just told him if he wants a response to use proper words.

I'm not going to be wasting my time translating his incoherent bollocks.

Oooh I've got one....

'Air' which, I think, means to ignore someone

Not teen (well, one hopes) but I was telling DH about someone referring to their ‘babydad’ and he thought it was someone whose child had been sired by an under 16 😂

@Proudling

*STANS not Arabs

Thanks for clarifying because I was completely baffled at Arabs!

@user127819 only my phone could autocorrect STAN so weirdly

As well as airing me whenever I mention hoovering etc, my teens are always phubbing me (I understand this to be snubbing me whilst looking at their phone) eg

"DC do have you any homework to do"

"DC stop phubbing me and put your phone down and talk to me without airing me"
"Oh my god mum can you not. Please don't try and talk like that"

I enjoy these interactions. I also do the thing where you put your hand up to the side of your face and pout, or something similar I understand to be called "peace and pout". This always clears the room of DC quite effectively.

I have also learnt
When the cat is just mooching round ignoring us all she is "lurking"
But if she is actively playing or rolling over for tummy stroking, she is "vibing"

Also when something has gone wrong I spread all my fingers/thumbs out and place my middle fingers on my temples whilst saying "oh my god" in a needlessly dramatic fashion.

I really love all this. I love having teenagers.

And by "something has gone wrong" I mean something terribly insignificant like dropping a sock on the floor.

My two have completely different slang. One went to an American school and the other to a British one. I often end up interpreting.

Today DS announced he was going to “puss me up” aka kill me.

He’s also going to “shank” me (stab me).

Lovely