"I was shook"

[BigSandyBalls2015]

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"

Are you shook fam? Nah its sick Innit.

Makes me feel old :)

I think ‘shook’ just got a whole load cooler now I know that Irish gannies use it.

oh yes, ds called me the other day to check if I could pick him up with "Where you at fam?"

I put the phone down on him.

I put the phone down on him.

😂

I say this I like using some of the teen slang ironically at first, but then find myself using some of them in everyday conversation eventually!

It's fun to do it when your kids' friends are around.

I also find myself saying someone is 'throwing shade' or acting 'salty'. I need to stop watching so much Youtube

an elderly person was described as shook looking you might as well start wondering who was going to get the farm.

Pebbles So wonderfully practical.

@BigSandyBalls2015 A baller used to be an American football player who had retired and gotten rich(er) with endorsements etc. These days any one who's flashing the cash gets called a baller.

My 11 year old just gets laughed at every time he tries out new slang.

If I ask how are you DS2 says Gucci. And his friends are " my boy James", etc.

Things are either "standard" or "extra".

Sounds like they are training for a job in McDonalds where they offer variations of fries.

It is irritating. My children can slip up time time to time and I just keep in correcting them and explainingto them that it is not proper English.

Starkid - I've done that unintentionally as well, you get so used to hearing it!

I was talking to a colleague at work about driving and said " ..... I skirted into a parking space". They looked at me as though I was mad!

That's interesting about the American footballers!

Where I am, there's a gradient from shook to quare shook and fierce shook. If you're fierce shook altogether, you're probably at death's door.

To me "jazzy" is "bright" possibly garish. Eg, Colin is wearing a rather jazzy tie. There's a bloke at work called Trigger, "to be triggered" would be something else entirely
Also I'm 27 and a friend was using "gucci" or "goochy" to say something was nice 10 years ago. He picked it up at cadets or otc I think.

I don't mind slang words but mangled teen grammar annoys me (although I know my own grammar isn't perfect, before someone snipes).

Shook is definitely an irish phrase to me as someone who is looking ill and starts the discussion who they will leave what to in their will lol

A description of a neighbour who someone called to our house when i was a child, i can remember the description he gave my father of the man he was looking for, "he has a big forehead and a nose in the middle of his face", my father pointed him directly to the mans house lol

Mood is the in word in our house atm, apparently everything a mood from a mates outfit to the cat doing something cute. I hear shook alot too as well as peng and various other snippets of 'roadman' speak mixed in with our Mancunian slang/phrases just to make it even more 'edgy'.

I find myself uttering the phrase 'im not saying anything, im just sitting here, judging you silently' alot and i fold my arms and just give them the 'MUM' stare.

My SS 15 is constantly saying 'triggered', thing is our 4 year old DD then copies him, making him instantly feel that it's the most ridiculous word ever! Best thing to do with these silly words is repeat them back or get a little kid copying, teenagers hate it then! Plus all these slang phrases and words will only be around for a few months then get replaced with the next one.....then 20 years later come back!

So the best thing to do is keep saying the word shook, and when your teenagers tells you angrily to stop, just say "calm down fam, don't get triggered".

I think used this way it is from America

I am shooketh

Where I live in Ireland it seems that (as SallyGardens said)

'shook' = I am hungover/I do not feel very well

'quare shook' = I have a bad bad hangover/I am really unwell

'fierce shook' = My hangover's hangover has a hangover and I want to die/ I'm on the way out.

After a emergency c section & pph the consultant said to me you will be shook for a day or two, its very common expression in Ireland.