35 classy slang terms for naughty bits from the past 600 years. A very concise dictionary of student slang. Student slang is a rapidly changing lingo, and you don't want to get caught out during freshers week confusing "hench" with "dench".
In the interests of preserving your cool, here's our glossary of well-worn faves. Feel free to add local variants and new witticisms in the comments. Bare Not actually anything to do with nudity, bare is an adjective meaning "a lot of", or "obviously". "I can't come to your party, I've got bare work to do. "" Used by: Hipsters, at first; slowly but surely filtering down through the student ranks. Bnoc An acronym standing for "big name on campus". "Sam thinks he's such a Bnoc, but really he's just deputy treasurer of the cheese appreciation society.
" Used by: The weary friends of CV-obsessives who live in the student's union. Chunder Verb meaning to vomit, usually due to over-consumption of alcohol. "I thought that drinking whisky neat would make me look suave like that guy from Mad Men, but now I think I might chunder. " Chundergrad Dench Desmond Hench Used by: Lads. Jel. Martha Robinson: Teenspeak is not for adults - Commentators - Voices. Some seem out of date (has anyone actually said "whack" since the 1990s?)
, some may be made up, and others are clearly after my time (with my 19th birthday rapidly approaching I am beginning to lose touch with teen speak). However, if you do have a burning desire to ape a 14-year-old, you're in luck. The national charity Parentline Plus has created an online "teenglish" dictionary at www.gotateenager.org.uk to "help break down the language barrier" between teenagers and their parents. There is an assumption here that being able to understand "teenglish" (a word that I pray never finds its way into any dictionary) will somehow make connecting with teenagers easier.
Is this really the case? Rather, the special brand of comedy gold produced when someone old enough to know better tries to be "down with the kids" is so patronising that it is likely to alienate teenagers further from their elders. Parents and teachers don't need to understand teenage slang, because they don't need to use it. Why Slang Is Good For You. Today's program puts special attention on language and identity — how they coincide and why those intersections matter.
Michael Adams is an associate Professor of English at Indiana University who studies one important intersection of language and identity: slang. He says slang keeps us sharp — and that there is creative value in the creation of new language among different social groups. "It's not just slang, but any language that's significantly different from what we expect exercises the brain and engages us," Adams says.
"We've got lots of room in language to be creative, to twist a word around a little bit, or the form of a sentence around a little bit to be clever. " "We are engaged when we're using slang. "Slang has its place, and other forms of discourse have their places too," Adams says. Do You Speak American . Words That Shouldn't Be? Friction over the American propensity to coin words and phrases dates back to the American Revolution.
Today, the transatlantic barbs continue to fly. In 2000, while speaking at an event promoting a massive effort to increase the export of British English teachers and English language curricula abroad, Britain's Prince Charles was asked by a reporter to comment on the rival form of the language spoken in the United States. Prince Charles sniffed that Americans: invent all sorts of new nouns and verbs and make words that shouldn't be... We must act now to ensure that English, and that to my way of thinking means British English, maintains its position as the world language. Prince Charles is likely aware that his warnings have gone unheeded. 10 sneaky pieces of thief slang.