Each week, aufeminin deciphers for you the games that are successful, the rising trends, the favorite objects or the most cryptic expressions of your teenagers … just to be up to date (and finally, understand them).
For this new “T’as la ref?”, We wanted to dissect the famous expression to be “the hess”, heard over and over again in the mouths of our dear teenagers. But what does that mean exactly?
“It’s really the hess” …
This word has returned to your ears often over the years. Whether you heard it in the street or when you turned on your television and came across the reality TV show “Les Marseillais” broadcast on W9, the observation is always the same: you don’t really know what this word means. Fortunately, we have prepared a little explanation for you.
What does it mean to be in hess?
The expression “It is the hess” comes from an Arabic word, hessd, which means “will to harm”. For the young people of today, this expression means “to be in misery”, “in a difficult situation”, “ric rac level money”, “one is in galley” … For example, your teenager is susceptible to tell you “the fridge is empty, it’s really the hess”! French slang has also appropriated a term from the Algerian dialect, and literally modified its original meaning. In the expression “c’est la hess”, the term hess will not have the same meaning in France or in Algeria. The term hess from the Algerian lḥās, designates the action of licking a dish, in slang we use this term to express a situation of precariousness, misery, a reuse of the image of the one who licks a dish so as not to lose a crumb.
This expression has been used for several years. You can also write “la hass”. We can hear it in youtubeur videos or even in music.
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“The hess” in music!
The French rapper Rohff signed a title, La Hass, for his album Beyond my limits, released in 2005. “If you don’t cash, no tass number, It’s Hass, Condemned to stay in the hass tess”. Or the famous music of the rapper 4KEUS with “Au quartier c’est la hess” which has reached millions of views on social networks and music platforms.
“O’Kartier is the hess ‘, half of the tier-quar is at hebs’. You know our address. Your thing what to do tell me that prevents you. My voice slips through your head. Turn up the loud sound in the box. “
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