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Cambridge Dictionary adds ‘skibidi, ‘tradwife, ‘delulu’ among 6,000 new words
Manila Bulletin
|August 20 2025
What the skibidi is happening to the English language?
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“Skibidi,” pronounced SKIH-bih-dee, is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additions this year to the Cambridge Dictionary.
“Internet culture is changing the English language and the effect is fascinating to observe and capture in the dictionary,” said Colin McIntosh, lexical program manager at Cambridge Dictionary, the world’s largest online dictionary.
“Skibidi” is a gibberish term coined by the creator of an animated YouTube series and canmean “cool” or “bad” or be used with no real meaning as a joke.
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