To wonder what happened to normal words???

[BlueberryJuice]

Conversation with dd (13) yesterday.....

dd: "im looking forward to going back to school next week, as some of those year 10 boys are really peng !"

me: "oh right"

dd: "yeah, thats why it's important i get my eyebrows done before i go back as i need them to be really fleeking !"

Seriously, where do they get these words from??? Lol

"Peng" has been around for years. I used it as a teenager too! "Omg he's so peng/pengaleng", "Omg your shoes are pengalicious, where did you get them from?"

"Buff" and "piff" were used in the same way (although I was a bit old for "piff" when that one came about. Other people my age used it though!)

She needs to get with it, it's 'on fleek', not 'fleeking'.

You think you know better than a 13 yr old?

Seems unlikely.

I'd be much more likely to believe that "fleeking" is an evolution of "on fleek", than that a 13 year old had got it wrong and that I (who heard about it on Buzzfeed) knew better.

On fleek - trendy
Peng - good/sexy/cool
Peak - means bad

Jst noticed my earlier post - auticorrect changed Rochelle Humes to Richelieu Hines or some such nonsense.
How confusing.

Time for us to reclaim the vernacular! Anyone for fab , super or spiffing ??

Highway, DD1 (17) was explaining to me recently, either that peak used to mean good, and now means bad, or the other way round. (Can't remember which.)

Sometimes a friend will say it, and she knows from which person is saying it, what it is likely to mean, on this occasion.

Confused yet?

If we are reclaiming vernacular I like to use:

Kit and caboodle
The ubiquitous discombobulated
Nincompoop
The whole she-bang
Marvellous
Antiquated
Cobblers
Buffoonery

I first came across "Penh" about 3 years ago courtesy of the wonderful "Preggers and Peng" stories from Marmalade Twatkins/Bupcakes

When Mumsnet was fun, and there were fields of green everywhere

Candy - we're on the same page with those suggestions!