{"id":10579,"date":"2018-11-06T14:55:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realitytitbit.com\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2018-11-06T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T14:55:09","slug":"7-words-made-famous-way-essex-reem-wepskini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2018\/11\/06\/7-words-made-famous-way-essex-reem-wepskini\/","title":{"rendered":"7 words made famous by The Only Way is Essex &#8211; From &#8220;Reem&#8221; to &#8220;Wepskini&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of reasons to be grateful for The Only Way is Essex.<\/p>\n<p>TOWIE provides light entertainment, has us appreciating our own accents, creates love-triangles we didn\u2019t deem possible in the human world and, of course, gave us Joey Essex.<\/p>\n<p>However, out of all the reality TV shows, from Geordie Shore to Made in Chelsea, TOWIE has provided more words that have unintentionally slipped into everyday U.K chitter-chatter.<\/p>\n<p>If you know what we mean.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re going to hate to admit it, but you\u2019ve probably used a term that started its trend in Essex.<\/p>\n<p>One of these&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">watching towie with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeyEssex_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JoeyEssex_<\/a> in has become my new fave thing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/reem?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#reem<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/whatyousayin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#whatyousayin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; daisy (@daisyyneal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daisyyneal\/status\/960157256217133056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wepskini is my new favourite word<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Los (@ryanlosito9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanlosito9\/status\/977701359469383681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/LauraForm\/status\/976517106811441152<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><\/b><b>1. Muggy<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>You probably think that \u201cmuggy\u201d started its trend during the hugely popular 2017 Love Island.<\/p>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<p>Runner-up Chris Hughes slapped the phrase onto Mike Thalassitis, spawning him with the new title of \u201cMuggy Mike\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a sentence: &#8220;Nah that is well out of order, like proper muggy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But, let&#8217;s not forget that Mike is from Essex, and terms ranging from mug to muggy were being passed around TOWIE since the early 2000&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>So who&#8217;s the muggy one now &#8230; probably still Mike.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>2. Reem<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>It rapidly moved in and out of fashion but take a time capsule to 2005 and Joey Essex was using the word reem for every possible occasion.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a sentence: &#8220;Got my watch on, fresh haircut &#8211; looking reem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Used to describe anything from his hair to the latest fashion trend, Joey saw \u2018reem\u2019 sweep the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>3. Sort<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Perhaps you\u2019ve wriggled the word \u2018sort\u2019 into a conversation just to see how your friends react, or perhaps you\u2019ve Googled variations of \u2018sort\u2019, \u2018salt\u2019 and \u2018sought\u2019 because you can\u2019t quite work out what these Essex folk are saying.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one or the other.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a sentence: &#8220;Mate, that girl is fit. Right little sort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2018Sort\u2019 has been used to describe someone physically attractive for a couple of years now, and it has even managed to develop into \u2018salt\u2019 through the cockney accent.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">4. Vajazzle<\/h2>\n<p>Perhaps &#8211; and hopefully &#8211; this is the term that most of us have not found regularly popping up in our daily language.<\/p>\n<p>First coined by Amy Childs in the 2010 TOWIE season, the term has significantly died down since.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a sentence: &#8220;What shall we get her for Christmas? A vajazzle?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t one mention of vajazzles in series 23 so far &#8230; not that we\u2019re complaining.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>5. Weapon<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Another term pretty much meaning the same thing, a \u2018sort\u2019 and a \u2018weapon\u2019 must be considered pretty damn similar when it comes to the Essex vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of terminology for attractive girls, believe it or not.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a sentence: &#8220;Look at her body, that is unreal &#8211; absolute weapon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Weapon has even developed into its own niche, as we have &#8216;wepskini&#8217; for when somebody is both attractive and wearing a bikini.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">6. Jel<\/h2>\n<p>Arguably the most common term to take over the lives of teenagers, jel has officially replaced jealous for lazy youths across the nation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a sentence: &#8220;Yeah, we were seeing each other for like three months, don&#8217;t be so jel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">7. Glamping<\/h2>\n<p>Around the same time that The Only Way is Essex gave us vajazzling, it also gave us glamping, the hybrid of glamorous and camping.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a sentence: &#8220;Pack the wellies and champers Barbara, we&#8217;re going glamping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the past eight years, the term has really taken off, with festivals across the country now offering \u2018glamping\u2019 experiences instead of what was previously known as a &#8216;tent with showers and stuff&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytitbit.com\/shows\/reality-soaps\/the-only-way-is-essex\/when-does-towie-finish-2018-how-many-episodes-are-left\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How many episodes are left of TOWIE? When does it finish?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><b>WATCH THE ONLY WAY IS ESSEX SERIES 23 EVERY SUNDAY AT 9 PM ON ITVBE.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Remember to subscribe to realitytitbit.com for all of your latest TOWIE news.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 words made famous by The Only Way is Essex &#8211; From &#8220;Reem&#8221; to &#8220;Wepskini&#8221;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1399,1410,1400],"class_list":["post-10579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-itv","tag-joey-essex","tag-the-only-way-is-essex"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2018\/11\/06\/7-words-made-famous-way-essex-reem-wepskini\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"7 words made famous by The Only Way is Essex &#8211; From &#8220;Reem&#8221; to &#8220;Wepskini&#8221;!","url":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2018\/11\/06\/7-words-made-famous-way-essex-reem-wepskini\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2018\/11\/06\/7-words-made-famous-way-essex-reem-wepskini\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Liam Curtis"}],"creator":["Liam Curtis"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Reality Shrine","logo":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png"},"keywords":["itv","joey essex","the only way is essex"],"dateCreated":"2018-11-06T14:55:09Z","datePublished":"2018-11-06T14:55:09Z","dateModified":"2018-11-06T14:55:09Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"7 words made famous by The Only Way is Essex &#8211; From &#8220;Reem&#8221; to &#8220;Wepskini&#8221;!\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/thetab.com\\\/realityshrine\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/06\\\/7-words-made-famous-way-essex-reem-wepskini\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/thetab.com\\\/realityshrine\\\/2018\\\/11\\\/06\\\/7-words-made-famous-way-essex-reem-wepskini\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"News\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Liam Curtis\"}],\"creator\":[\"Liam Curtis\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"Reality Shrine\",\"logo\":\"https:\\\/\\\/realitytvshrine.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png\"},\"keywords\":[\"itv\",\"joey essex\",\"the only way is essex\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2018-11-06T14:55:09Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-11-06T14:55:09Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-11-06T14:55:09Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/realitytvshrine.com\/p.js"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249734239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}