'Skibidi,' 'delulu' make their way into Cambridge Dictionary
The latest additions to the world's largest online dictionary, among 6,000 others, show how much internet culture is changing the English language.
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it always amuses me when people complain about stuff like this
words that people use are being put in the big list of words that people use??? oh noes!!!
"aint aint a word and I aint gonna say it"
According to my grandmother her grandmother used to chastise folks for using the word ain't, all I gotta say to that is ain't that a kick in the head.
You flamdrabs..The flarnibulous sprockle will wumble the glibberflats if you don't snorp
guess they should add these words because someone said em.
The idea is if a lot of people use those words in a definable way, it would be good to define them somewhere
There should be a time limit for the addition of new words. If a word can sustain, let's say, 10 years of use then it can be put down for all of eternity. We have an urban dictionary for most nonsense words.
Took a helluva long time for ain't and y'all to make it into the big book o words.
I don't get why modern slang is being thrown in so fast.
New hires at the dictionary companies are bored.
Without proper steering, English is being driven by vapid influencers and not linguists. People complain about inconsistencies a lot, and yet more arbitrary additions by someone seeking relevance is how we 'progress' forward. It's like a kangaroo driving a bus.
It makes them more "real." Official, like.
It's silly anyway. They put "jiggy" in there back in the 90's and nobody uses that word at all anymore. In 10-20 years, will we still see/hear these? 🤷♂️
I definitely have said “gettin jiggy” at least once in the last two years. Maybe ironically, but it is part of my vernacular.
I still don't know what those words mean
Skibidi is literally listed as a nonsense word, so it essentially has no meaning!
Like, brainless filler, innit, knowotImean?
Delulu means delusional I think.
Skibidi I have no clue. Maybe "I spend too much time on tiktok" ?
Wikipedia's article about it seems to be written by someone living under a rock. Six years ago Little Big released the song Skibidi.
https://youtu.be/mDFBTdToRmw
Well as a nonsense sound in music it's way older than that, right? Like Scatman John used it a whole bunch. The notability of it recently is that is started to be used more like a normal word, even if there's still not much of a meaning
I'm pretty sure the modern usage comes mostly from skibidi toilet.
That's very ohio of them
I always thought "skibidi" meant "that's all folks". Fuck I'm old.
“Skibidi skibidi skibidi… That's all, folks!” - Porky Pig
Exactly!
I’ve never heard of delulu before. Sure I may not know what skibidi is but at least I’ve heard of it. Made me think of labubu
Me neither. Looked it up and it is short for delusional, for anyone else that doesn't know
How haven't you heard of delulu? I predates the internet?
Idk it just never came up. Also, why would they wait so long to add that word if it’s so ancient?
Wasn't as popular as now. More of a valley girl or Clueless kind audience used it
I also don't exactly know what it means. I have heard it in a song lyric or two, but have never known someone to say it in conversation.
Also "tradwife." 🫤
You want wife trade?
After reading the comments, no one knows skibidi.
Sigh. It's a sad day.
Why?