{"id":3217,"date":"2025-08-18T13:11:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/cambridge-dictionary-adds-series-of-slang-words\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:11:28","slug":"cambridge-dictionary-adds-series-of-slang-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/cambridge-dictionary-adds-series-of-slang-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge Dictionary adds series of slang words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-08-18 13:11:26<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>The Cambridge Dictionary has added a series of slang words.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Delulu&#8221; is a play on &#8220;delusional&#8221;, meaning &#8220;choosing to believe things that are not real&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Skibidi&#8221; is &#8220;a word that can have different meanings, such as &#8216;cool&#8217; or &#8216;bad&#8217;, or can be used with no real meaning as a joke&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nThe word &#8220;skibidi&#8221; gained global popularity after it was used in an animated YouTube series called Skibidi Toilet &#8211; human heads sticking out of the toilet bowl.<BR><br \/>\nThe word also featured on a necklace that North West, 12, gave to her mum, Kim Kardashian.<BR><br \/>\nOther words that have made it into the Cambridge Dictionary include &#8220;tradwife&#8221; &#8211; a shortened version of &#8220;traditional wife&#8221;; a married woman who stays at home, cooking, cleaning and looks after her children.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Mouse jiggler&#8221; has also made the cut, with it meaning a device or app that causes mouse movement and stops computers from entering sleep mode.<BR><br \/>\nPrinted in the dictionary is &#8220;inspo&#8221; &#8211; short for &#8220;inspiration&#8221;; something that inspires something new.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Lewk&#8221; &#8211; a play on the word look; an unusual and impressive style, fashion or outfit choice &#8211; also appears.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Delulu&#8221; &#8211; a shortened version of the word delusional, choosing to believe something that is not real &#8211; as well as &#8220;broligarchy&#8221;; a combination of &#8220;bro and oligarchy, referring to a rich and powerful group of men who have or want political influence, have also been added.<BR><br \/>\nColin McIntosh, lexical programme manager at the Cambridge Dictionary, said: &#8220;We only add words where we think they&#8217;ll have staying power.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Internet culture is changing the English language, and the effect is fascinating to observe and capture in the dictionary.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-08-18 13:11:26 The Cambridge Dictionary has added a series of slang words. &#8220;Delulu&#8221; is a play on &#8220;delusional&#8221;, meaning &#8220;choosing to believe things that are not real&#8221;. &#8220;Skibidi&#8221; is &#8220;a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3219,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions\/3219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}