Brush up on your teenglish

London News: Teen jargon-buster for parents is nang innit bedrin? by Rachael Wheeler.
Thursday, 11 September 2008

PARENTS left behind by teenage slang are no longer on their jays (on their own) thanks to a new online guide.Confused mums and dads can work out what their teens are cussing about by logging on to a jargon-buster, created by Parentline Plus.The charity has set up a social networking website for parents to sooth the struggle of coping with real-life Kevin and Perrys.Parentline Plus provides help and advice, plus offers the chance to blog and chat about teenage trauma, in what looks like the parent’s version of Facebook.One of its most popular features is the jargon-buster, which provides an alphabetical list of crunk (crazy) terms, along with their meaning and an example of context.

Brush up on your teenglish below…

Bedrin - friend, mate

Buff - attractive, fit

Butters - ugly

Chirps - chat up

Clock - caught out

Cotching - chilling out

Crunk - crazy, drunk

Dissed - disrespected

Endz - neighbourhood

Feds - Police

Flossing - showing off with material possessions

Hench - to be strong

Jacked - stolen

Jook - to stab or steal

Nang - brilliant

Neeky - out of fashion or geeky

Off the hook - excellent, wicked

On your jays - on your own

Phat - great

Rinsed - overused

Wagwaan - what’s going on

Whack - crazy

from thelondonpaper