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.

[AmberLeaf]

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!

[AmberLeaf]

• 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.

[AmberLeaf]

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/

[TantrumsAndBalloons]

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.

[gillywillywoo]

Dench = really cool, awesome, nice

[beachyhead]

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

[GetOrfMoiLand]

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

[AmberLeaf]

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!

[RussiansOnTheSpree]

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.

[smoothieooo]

'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...!

[FasterStronger]

'Are you parring me?' sounds almost Shakespearian.

[Queenbee245]

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

[FifiShops]

"Cotch" / "Cotchin" = Chilled / Relaxing

[ThreeBeeOneGee]

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?

[ThreeBeeOneGee]

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

[PeskyRat]

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 ..............' .

[DarrellRivers]

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)

[piratecat]

Orangefooted am @ your
'for time'!

[PeskyRat]

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 .

[PeskyRat]

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.

[FrogPrincess]

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.

[notso]

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!

[PeskyRat]

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

Drum roll:

Young money cash money billionaire - or summat!

[Queenbee245]

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

[carriedawayannie]

Lean - drunk
Sket - Slag