The rise of TikTok trends and social media slang has prompted Cambridge Dictionary to update its online edition with 6,000 fresh entries in the past year, including buzzwords like ‘skibidi’, ‘delulu’, and ‘tradwife’.
For those less immersed in digital culture, some of the sample sentences the UK-based dictionary provides may sound baffling.
Phrases such as ‘that wasn’t very skibidi rizz of you’ or ‘As Gen Z say, I’ve entered my ‘delulu era’? can appear like another language entirely.
According to Cambridge, skibidi is defined as ‘a word that can have different meanings such as ‘cool’ or ‘bad,’ or can be used with no real meaning as a joke’.
Meanwhile, delulu is described as a “play on the word delusional, means ‘believing things that are not real or true, usually because you choose to’.
The term skibidi was popularized through Skibidi Toilet, a surreal YouTube animation series featuring human heads popping out of toilets.
