I’ve only just discovered this word which shows how uncool I am. It’s a London slang word meaning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>very beautiful<\/a> or attractive<\/a>: I saw<\/a> a girl<\/a> – she was peng.<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n extremely<\/a> good: That burger<\/a> looks<\/a> peng.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n More examples<\/p>\n\n\n\n So where does the word come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I understand that ‘peng’\u00a0was originally a term used in Jamaica to describe high quality weed. It then came to mean someone who is really good looking. A lot of the London slang words are Jamaican in\u00a0origin. They become popular through music and black Londoners links with the Caribbean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve only just discovered this word which shows how uncool I am. It’s a London slang word meaning: very beautiful or attractive: I saw a girl – she was peng. extremely good: That burger looks peng. More examples That jacket is peng! I’d go out with that boy, he’s well peng. There was an online page called “Britain’s pengest teens“. So where does the word come from? I understand that ‘peng’\u00a0was originally a term used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27023,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27020\/revisions\/27023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}