"I was shook"

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This is the latest teen talk in my house. Is it wrong to find it immensely irritating?

I reply with "you mean it shook you up, or you were shaken?"

"No mum I was shook"

My dd says this....I thought it was something to do with K-pop. I may be mistaken though

Language evolves over time and I’m sure you annoyed your parents with ‘cool slang’.

It just means I was surprised.

Slang has little to do with language actually evolving. Slang comes and goes, and rarely stops long enough to make it into society’s broader vocabulary.

We have 'shooketh' here - mainly by us adults to piss the kids off

That's hilarious- describing someone as 'shook' is a very rural Irish thing, usually associated with the elderly.

E.g. 'I saw Mary after mass, she's looking very shook.' I love the idea it's become cool teen slang. Send them to the west of ireland and they'll get over the habit!

That is so so funny. Irish here too. Only ever heard it to describe an elderly person who may not have long left or someone who is trying (but not doing well) to get over something traumatic

Sorry, am amused, so many kids talk this way but like anything, it's a passing phase. The expression has been going for several years and has become common parlance in South London, we get 'bare shook' too.

All bants innit

My Grannies are cool !

Do they go to the shops for their messages too?

Elvis made a fortune out of being all shook up. Just sayin'

Last night was lit bruv but I was bare shook when that dog came at me.

Standard Roadman dialect. Not new. Very irritating!

Yawn. Didn't we just do this with 'woke'?

You're meant to hate the way that teenagers speak. They do it to distinguish themselves from adults. 'Twas ever thus.

Norfolk dialect I think.

Standard Brummie

It's just teen slang. Exactly like you had when you were a teen.

Many's the time I was a bit shook after a night out. Irish here too. If an elderly person was described as shook looking you might as well start wondering who was going to get the farm. They weren't long for this world.

West Midlands.
Come 'ome t'day and seen summat that really shook me up
Common parlance round here.

Ha! I'm Irish too and had to laugh at this.
Shook. Couldn't be less cool. Mainly said by the elderly about their peers.

Shook started being used by kids because of some youtubers using it. I think it means shocked or shaken up.

Blimey this was slang back in the noughties when I was a teenager. Has it made a comeback?!

Shook doesn't piss me off as much as woke.

I had the phrase "many grats" said to me at work today by a youngun. I had to go back and ask what on earth they meant. Short for "many gratitudes" apparently, which doesn't even make grammatical sense. What's wrong with "thank you?"

Sorry, went off on one there!

@Maras2 I think you are missing the true horror of the expression. You see there is no ‘me’ and there is no ‘up’. You was just shook bruv.

I can confirm that shook is still very much used in the West of Ireland. I might occasionally use it myself, and I'm only slightly middle aged.

I work with this language from colleagues not children it makes me feel very old early 20's
I also hear ' I was triggered' a lot
Oh to be a teenager again!

Identical thread running now.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3237608-To-hate-the-term-woke?msgid=77565370