the origin of nang

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mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
this really cheered me up today (from urban dictionary)

(for non-london readers, nang is slang meaning good)


nang

something that's cool

The word originated in Hackney, London. Specifically Kingsland Secondary School (now sadly gone).
The word is a direct product of one Nang Phan, an ex-student of KS. It came about through boys in years above her chiding "ahh, Nang you're nang". It caught on like wildfire from there.


Sent a little warm thing into my heart. How great is that? The only time I ever hit the vernacular was when someone posted my name in urban dictionary with its meaning being slang for a cunt.
 
Z

zhao

there are no accidents
that's awesome.

zhao should mean like, word. right on.

i can see people saying it when they slap or shake hands.
 
P

Pestario

tell your friends
I read this other day too haha! I love it, to think a person's name could become such widely used slang - even popping up in the guardian. I wonder where Nang is now and what she thinks of it all.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Speaking of kiddy slang, the thread about Bear Stearns keeps making me think of some Saaf London schoolkids complaining about an unreasonably strict teacher: "Yeah blud, she's bare stern!" :cool:
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
The guys I sit with at work make me feel old, I can send them into fits of giggles by saying slang words - "It just sounds funny when you say it".
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
IdleRich said:
The guys I sit with at work make me feel old, I can send them into fits of giggles by saying slang words - "It just sounds funny when you say it".
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Well if you insist on calling policemen 'bobbies' and children 'scallywags', what do you expect?
 
S

Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
The town I went to high school in apparently has a word like this too: "chate"

It means to be tight with money, or not very generous, or is an adjective for a poor deal. The rumour is there was a kid who went to some next school in a different neighbourhood called Thomas Chate or something to that effect and he was a tight git.

I never knew whether to believe this or not, but I've never met a person not from Oakville who has used this word.

(I just checked Urban Dictionary, and every definition includes reference to Oakville: "The word's namesake was a student at OTHS (Oakville-Trafalgar Highschool) who was known to short-change you when dealing marijuana.")
 
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Jaie Miller

Jaie Miller

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Request to change the title of this thread to : the origins of slang.

Who is nick?

In the nick of time, you're nicked?

who is nick?

what was he so on time for? I wonder.

Maybe there are more slangs that aren't so far away.

OK apparently means 0 kills, in regards to the trenches.
 
straight

straight

wings cru
in northern ireland (north west spedifically) a 'stoke' is any dishonest/thieving itinerant type, the equivalent of 'pikey' here, which comes from a prominent travelling family who used to beg/steal round Derry and the surroundingg areas in the 80s who were eventually ousted. The expression has spread throughout ireland now apparently through university folk. also used as 'stoke someone out of something' as in to cheat
 
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