Teenage slang translation thread

[ThreeBeeOneGee]

This is what I have learned this evening...

Beast = very good.
Peak = rubbish, unfair.

If anyone can add anything else, please do, in the interests of helping me understand what my son is saying to me.

allow.. Loww it you aren't meant to say the whole word.

Most of these are Jamaican slang/patois.

I have seen a few of the terms mutate a bit too, Me and my son have had a few laughs at the idiots from the small town we lived in briefly, who were horribly racist to my son, but who now use these expressions on facebook [mutual friend-we have fb stalked them yes] but they use them in the totally wrong context!

• My son doesn't and never has used those terms BTW.

Except Dench, but thats a gaming word and fairly new, well it started in gaming anyway.

Dench, invented by Lethal Bizzle and his cousin Emmanuel Frimpong [footballer] while they were playing fifa on xbox [or something like that]

They now have a clothing line.

www.staydench.com/

But what does DENCH mean amber?

Tbh, it makes me laugh a little because ds1 goes to a predominatly white school. But even though he has had racism directed at him, comments made about how he must be a mugger with a knife because he is a black teenager, all sorts really (but that's a whole other thread), all they boys there talk like they just stepped off the plane from Jamaica.

Dench = really cool, awesome, nice

I'm going to test my teens when they come home!!!

Funny thing was Judi Dench was interviewed on Radio 1 and she posed for a picture with Greg James with a Dench hat on pic

Dench doesn't actually mean any one thing, it isn't just used to describe something good either, it can mean something negative too.

Yes Judi Dench was a good sport about the whole thing apparently!

Yes Tantrums, it's ironic isn't it.

I grew up in SE London and sometimes I'll slip in without really thinking about it a random word from my yoof, that come from a hybrid of Docker slang/Gypsy slang/Jamaican slang, my children look at me like and say 'MuUUm, how do you know about that?' and I have to point out that they didn't actually invent those terms, that they have just picked them up under the impression that they are new!

Actually, Dench has meant shit but overrated for years. Whatever the teens are using it to mean now doesn't actually negate it's true meaning.

'Are you parring me?' = are you showing me disrespect?

After I found this out I used it on DS2 (13) and he couldn't believe I'd said it! I may have also called him 'Trash Man' too, just for the effect.

DS1 (14) never uses teenage slang. He was born in the wrong era I think...!

'Are you parring me?' sounds almost Shakespearian.

KMT= kiss my teeth (not a good thing meant as a sign of disrespect)
Shook= scared
Wired= drug induced paranoia
Peak= good (his hat is peak)
Narmean = do you know what I mean?
Bless = parting word

"Cotch" / "Cotchin" = Chilled / Relaxing

Queenbee: in our area, 'peak' has negative connotations. It usually means someone or something is unfair, harsh or ungenerous. For example, if a parent asks you do your revision before allowing you to go out, that would be bare peak.

I have heard 'tank' used to describe an admirable rugby tackle.

My son and his friends use the word 'Hesky' a lot. Similar to Dench, perhaps?

'And your face' seems to be an all-purpose reply to pretty much any comment.

Haha, love this thread.

Cotch I think comes from the word couch - basically just relaxing on the couch? Not sure though, hard to work out where some of these words originate!

I offer you:

Fully gassed - big headed, full of yourself.
Sheg - really messed up.
Wavey - drunk/high. Most of my son's school friends have their facebook names as 'Wavey ..............' .

Thanks for the YOLO
I saw a girl with YOLO all over her tights and I thought it might be VOLO and be derived from the latin verb' to want'
(feels centuries old)

Orangefooted am @ your
'for time'!

Do any of you slip into the slang yourself ?

I find I do it all the time, as a jokey way of chatting to my Ds, doesn't go down too well.

Don't try it fam .

Even the primary school children around here speak like this.

Yesterday picking up my girls:

"where you going fam?" 8 year old to friend going past.
"Home innit. Why you still at school?" replies friend.
"Don't watch that fam!!!" answers 8 year old.

such a useful thread! DD never uses any of these but occasionally uses a bit of nadsat..... then again she is a rebel in her own way. Yesterday she informed me she was only using proper spelling and punctuation in all her texts (including semi-colons). DH and I do indulge in the odd bit of teenage speak just to see her roll her eyes at us.

I saw a girl with YOLO all over her tights and I thought it might be VOLO and be derived from the latin verb' to want'
(feels centuries old)

At least your interpretation was intelligent, I thought it was short for Yo, Hello,
DD was most unimpressed when I said to her in front of two mates,
"I got you that Yo Hello top you wanted"
Her friends nearly pissed themselves!

I am only 32!

In the same vibe as YOLO, my son asked me for a YMCMB bag.

Drum roll:

Young money cash money billionaire - or summat!

YOLO was made famous by the rapper Drake who also gave us HYFR (hell yeah fucking right)
I have teenage dsc

Lean - drunk
Sket - Slag