How many times have your teens said something and you couldn’t fathom out what on earth they were talking about? My husband and I were totally caught out when my son sent a pic of his girlfriend with her hands over her face after she had been in a uni play saying she was ‘sick’. Well, did she vomit before she went on, or was she brilliant?! Yup, we are those stupid people who have no idea, so I thought I would pull together a list of words they use with their translation into 50 year old speak:
They say | What it means to us |
Allow | It’s tedious |
Bare | Loads |
Bless | Cheers |
Crescape | Short for ‘crate escape’. Bring a crate of beer |
Chipped | Have they left? |
Chirpsing | The semi state of not going out with someone but you are still an item |
Creasing | Laughing |
Dank | Similar to Peng (see below) |
Dead | Bad as in ‘this party’s dead’ |
Doin’ bits | Good as in fulfilling its purpose |
Down | Up for it |
Free | Parents are away so house is free of adults |
Live | Awesome |
LOL | Laugh out loud (not lots of love!) |
Long someone out | Make their life more tedious |
Long | Tedious |
Mad | Really good |
Madness | A really good thing |
Neng | Bad, opposite to Peng |
Peak | The worst |
Peng | Very nice, relating to a thing or person |
A piece | A small period of time |
Pre | Meet for drinks before an event to save money (and get a little drunk) |
Rate that | Good |
Safe | Hello or goodbye (mutual respect) |
Set me a … | Give me a … |
Sick | Really good (adj) as in ‘he played sick’ |
Tinnie | Beer |
Trust | I agree |
What you saying? | What are you doing? |
Whip | Car |
Whip to a place | Drive |
Word | To agree |
Yard | House |
Yat | Like calling a girlfriend ‘bird’ |
Yip | Walking/driving around |
But remember! Don’t let on that you know these words as they might stop using them and then we will be back to square one!