Teenage slang - what are they saying at the moment?

[tamburlaine]

what are the funniest/most annoying/most incomprehensible bits of slang your teens are using at the moment?
I'm writing a piece about teenage boys set in the west country, and my experience of teenage boys is based entirely in hackney where everyone tries to talk like a yardie 'n ting you get me.
So I'd be very grateful for any non hackney mums of teenage boys giving me a list of current slang. Cheers.

phat = good
you spoon = you might be a little more dense than the ordinary person

you norbert - as above

my lad had recently took to saying - your 'avin a giraff = laugh

yeah but - and they are not even taking the little britain piss.

sweet = good

I ve been watching big brother on and off and although not teenage, maxwell has used some expressions that ive never heard of.

F*k about seems to mean taking the p*s
off the hook seems to mean a girl is very fanciable.

I guess its either him or just regional, I've been out of uk for 2 years so I know things change, Ive noticed the rise of the word chav and that definitely wasnt used in England the last time I was there. I find it fascinating!

god there's load isn't there,

random = something's random ie/ out of the blue u do/ say somehting, or somehting's happened that doesn't fit then it's " ok then bit random but ok"

easy = slow down (normally)

ease up = (normally said when naggin is going on)

muppet/fool (old workd coming back in the right ways) = a silly person normally said to a close friend if they do something stupid.

choppsin off = being mouthy and generally v vocal.

choopsy - bit dogdey, not favourable etc..

(most of these r ones my DH has started to use as he works with a load of older teenagers 18-20) and we're only 22 anyways

noticed some more since this thread got me thinking about it.
'bare' for something good.
'dirty' - something you don't like eg 'that dirty bread with the seeds in it'
a 'larry' - someone uncool

ooh theres also

claret = blood (bit random that one is)
box = womens foofs lol
easin all = hello/ said when walkin into a room.

the good old BBC have written a lexicon of teenagers' slang

Nursery nurses (Bristolian, if that's West country enough): 'it's/he's lush' (for 'good, sexy, nice to eat' - think that's becoming national); 'where's the wall/house to?' (ie. where is the wall?); mum is often 'Ma' pronounced 'Maaarr' esp. in North Somerset (as in, negative, 'Oh maaaa'. Bristol teens all go to the Mall, not the shops. Nobody says 'sad' any more. If you're smelly you're 'mingin'.And of course, 'this is so not happening'.

My children currently use class and shade. class as in a good thing e.g "that ps2 game is well class" and shade as in mean or "tight" e.g me "no you can't go out until you have eaten all of your tea." my daughter " don't be so shade mum". all very amusing for me Also mingin for horrible and of course loser for anyone disliked, if i dont keep up with all this i am told i am either so yesterday or so last week

You would do better starting your own thread than bringing up one that is over 6 years old. You also might need to ask MN HQ if you are a journalist.

Gurt lush! Is a good west country one.

Things are "sick" if they're good.

Dd uses the term 'bants' all the time meaning something good ie "it was bants" The other one is "don" for someone who is considered cool/fun etc. For example she will describe a teacher (male or female) as a "don". We live on the border of Essex so a lt of TOWIE phrases are infiltrating teen slang - well jell ( really jealous) reem (cool) etc. Thankfully dd despises TOWIE so she doesn't use these. DS uses "sic" a lot to describes something really good ie an Xbox game can be "really sic".

if you've got a iPhone etc you can download an app .. I've found it invaluable

Mission and mish. As in "it was a total mish."

My ds and his friends all say 'wagwan' meaning whats going on or what are we doing tonight!

Yes yellow I hear that a lot too Can I have a lift to Oli's its a mish

"Blates" is another one, instead of blatently

Blates uncool innit

It's 'bled' here after everything. And 'as'. Me - trying to teach Y7 literacy -
Read what you have so far Child A.
Child A 'The lion was as scary as.'
Me 'Scary as what?'
CA: (Looking bemused)Scary as!
Me (Clutching at straws) Turn it into a simile.Scary as what?
CA (with a WTF face) AS! Just AS!

Reem
Wel Jel.

Its towie i reckon! they have scrambled DD and her friends into essex children!

chirpsing - that flirty time just before going out proper

Rattus I think the missing word is "fuck", as in, as scary as fuck, but not that that is teenage slang.

We have "don" round here as well as ledge (legendary).
"Bare" = very
"Maje" = majorly
"Badaman" = someone who thinks they are cool

Gah just realised this is a fecking zombie thread

Do you know what - call me old fashioned - but I really don't think you should be giving any kind of publicity to the 'slang' language in any of its forms. It's such a terrible part of the dumbing-down that our teenagers are subjected to. My dd who doesn't (as yet) talk slang is constantly teased for being 'posh' - talking normally is now aparently not allowed.