They keep doing this to us. Those kids keep inventing new words of obscure origin, and of even obscurer meaning. ‘Leng’ is the latest. According to the hyper-hip online Urban Dictionary leng ‘is a word that describes something super attractive; it’s a levelled-up version of “peng” and both words are roadman slang, used on the streets of Britain’.
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