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.

[carriedawayannie]

Proper - Really

[doubleshotespresso]

It does make me smile when I travel around various areas of London and hear children of all colours and creeds talking as if they have onvented their own language....

Most of the above is largely of Jamaican origin and it makes me crack up that all these kids live far from gangster lifestyles and when they go home and ask what is for dinner they wouldn't know a Dutch pot if they were hit with one.....

My kids complain of bare stress if asked to do anything which is nauseating/funny in equal measure.

[aurorastargazer]

lol at the whole thread! i am now acutely aware of my age and i am only 38!!
i have used 'proper' though....

[nikaia60]

Right.....so it looks like I'll actually have even less understanding of what my daughter is saying when she hits her teens than I do now.. (she's 18 months old. A few clear words, the rest just incoherent babble...)

[KirjavaTheCat]

My OH is 25 and still uses some of these words.

[CinnabarRed]

Unit = fat girl (becuase she's as wide as she's tall as she's deep)

[TheCountessOlenska]

Ah bless them! I'm actually looking forward to having teenagers in a weird way

The young people at DH's work say YOLO, also LTD (Live the Dream)

[AmberLeaf]

^Wavey - drunk/high. Most of my son's school friends have their
facebook names as 'Wavey^

Wavey = drunk/high but also means 'exceptionally good' when refering to a persons appearance or 'swagger' so that would explain the 'WAVEY..XXX' type facebook names.

Cotch = to 'set up' or 'rest up' somewhere for chilling or just hanging out purposes. [jamaican term]

Beef = to be in conflict with another person, ranging from a minor dispute to full blown war! 'he's got some beef with me' or 'mans beefing him innit' 'mans tryna beef me'

This may be helpful too

[BonzoDooDah]

Well this has been an education {she said in received pronunciation}

Bit at gash = girl though. Gash = genitals (crude) so a bit grim if the kids are thinking it's okay to refer to girls as such.

[secretscwirrels]

I can see I need to watch this thread.
We were watching BGT on Saturday and DS2 said "swag" at that little girl as if he was in awe. I didn't give him the satisfaction of asking what it meant.

[PeskyRat]

ooooh thanks AmberLeaf didn't know that about 'wavey', not so after all then!

[bigTillyMint]

Gillywoo - sounds very familiar, but then I must live fairly close to you!

Butters is butt-ugly
sket is a ho, but the worst of the worst

[Pan]

Am soo looking forward to 'testing' 13 yo dd, who is as sweet as pie and lives semi-rural in da North. Dench.

[Pan]

Reminds me of the English/patois misunderstanding:

Rasta: Pass me de beer can.
Nigel:
Rasta: Naah, man. De beer can! So's I can fry it wit de eggs.

[PeskyRat]

Pan, love it!

[bigTillyMint]

QueenQueenie,

love moist - DS describes most of the boys in his year group as moist!

He has never heard of hodge, though - dead (or wack, apparently!)

[Pan]

Not patois, but dench.

[PeskyRat]

Moist yooooooooot, kmt!

[Pan]

A lot of the inverted stuff comes from the time of slavery in the U.S., so the slaves could talk within hearing of the 'masters'. So "Me overs?" means, " You understand?"

[NeoMaxiZoomDweebie]

I thought the origin of "Butters" was from Butt Ugly?

[bigTillyMint]

Yep Neo!

[PeskyRat]

Oh yes, also something recent. The girls at school are all 'hotspices' especially on facebook. So a group of girls would call themselves 'year 9 hotspices' etc.

Whats the origin of that I wonder?

Is it just a London thing/ting?

The mind boggles.

[NeoMaxiZoomDweebie]

I'm very pissed off at things like "sket" and "Gash" and I hope that parents are discouraging their use. They're DISGUSTING terms that are designed to keep girls down.

[PeskyRat]

'sket and 'gash' are the new 'slag and 'cunt'.

[bigTillyMint]

I agree, Neo, they are foul. Have heard girls use skets about other girls, too.