When you go over to the UK on your travels, we here at BBM think it’s imperative that you’re armed with all the essentials: passport, money, rainproof clothing, and British slang. No, really. If you are fortunate enough to encounter a ‘yoof’, prepare to be confronted with some words and phrases that definitely sound like English, but not quite as you know it.
peng p-EN-g adjective
the appearance of a person that is particularly to one’s liking: Bruv, this girl I saw yesterday was bare peng.
dench d-EN-ch adjective
1. rather enjoyable: This party tonight is going to be dench.
2. a person that is large in stature or muscularly: Mans, have you been hitting the gym?! You look well dench!
3. verb to borrow or steal an item, usually of clothing: Can I dench this shirt?
see also denched to have an item borrowed or stolen: She just denched my shirt!
nang n-AN-g adjective
good or great: No, seriously, Great Gatsby was nang.
blem bl-EM noun
1. prison slang for tobacco, most commonly used in southern England. Also used for marijuana: Sort me a blem, cuz.
2. adjective to be intoxicated with alcohol or narcotics, usually marijuana: Bruv, are you blem!?
what’s your motive? wh-ATS-y-ou-R-MO-ti-VE idiom
an inquiry into one’s plans at that moment in time or for the rest of the day. Not to be confused with one’s general motivation in life: So what are you saying, babygirl, what’s your motive?
gassed g-ASS-ed adjective
1. to get excited, to get one’s hopes up: I hope Beyoncé touches me at the concert, I will be gassed for days, blud
2. one that has gotten so used to compliments, their mind state is erred to the point where they believe they are in fact superior to everyone else: Beyoncé wouldn’t hold my hand, that bitch is too gassed
creps cR-e-PS noun
clean, unmarked trainers. Not to be confused with crepe 1. a lightweight fabric or 2. a thin, light, delicate pancake: Creps be looking fresh, bruv.
swear down sw-EA-R-d-OW-n idiom
1. to make a sincere promise: I swear down, look at me one more time, and I’ll shank you
2. used to imply that someone is telling the absolute truth: She sucked me off while we were waiting at McDonald’s drive-thru, I swear down!
suck your mum s-UC-k-y-ou-R-m-U-m idiom
exclaimed usually by the losing person in an argument. It has not yet been determined which part of ‘your mum’ one is supposed to ‘suck’:
Krystal – ‘Rihanna is a terrible role model.’
Melanie – ‘Whatever, man, suck your mum.’
rahtid RAH-tid idiom
of West Indian origin, meaning something that is not good, bad: ‘Rahtid, I got sentenced to two years in pen.’
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