List of Generation Z Slang
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
And it's not "af" like ahf, it's "A. F."; and "As. F".
This reminds me a bit of those Parenting magazines that got like half the slang or origins wrong
My bona fide Gen Z son does not allow me to use any of the words in OP, especially not in front of his friends.
Shortened to Cappin.
Ultimately these kinds of things are what drives me crazy about Gen Z is their ephemeral disdain for history or context, existing only in the now.
That's not Gen Z, that's "the youth today" at any point in history.
Unless there was a generation noted for hanging out on street corners trading unexpurgated copies of Gibbon's Decline and Fall.. ?
Now it's "this is the thing currently" and it might as well have just appeared out of thin air, no context, no past, and not really any future either, only right now, and with fleeting attention spans, gone in a short while also. (like the example elsewhere in here about not learning the slang because it'll be gone in a second anyways) And that leads to trends being appropriated, copied, absorbed like it's nothing. And then forgotten. It's cultureless.
Gen Z vernacular usage of "spicy" is one of those difficult idioms to pin down/describe but not that difficult to understand, so I was curious about a wikipedia list's take on it
You also sometimes get it having a connotation of sexuality but that actually seems like a holdover of an older (maybe millenial?) idiomatic usage of the word
In context it made sense the first time they said it, out of context I'd probably have had no idea what they meant.