"Skibidi", "tradwife" and other slang terms popularised on social media are among thousands of new words to be added to the Cambridge Dictionary this year.
"Skibidi" is a conversation starter, but only for chats filled with brain rot (more on that later). Urban Dictionary suggests it's a word used by gamers when they want to be funny. In a viral TikTok video, @etymologynerd said it doesn't have a set definition and can be used as an adjective anywhere.
It's a reference to a YouTube kids show named Skibidi Toilet. The term is used as a random reference, meaning bad or weird. It is also used as a filler word that means, well, nothing at all. For example, someone might express their bewilderment about something and say, “What in the skibidi is going on here?”
Unfortunately you won't be able to use skibidi in a Scrabble tournament anytime soon—that uses its own dictionary—but you can probably argue in a home game that it's an officially recognised word now.
‘Skibidi’, ‘delulu’ and ‘tradwife’ added to Cambridge Dictionary
Is skibidi a bad word in English?
“Skibidi” is a gibberish term coined by the creator of an animated YouTube series and can mean “cool” or “bad” or be used with no real meaning as a joke.
Parents should avoid names with negative connotations, like “Evil”, “Bodoh”, and “Busuk” – which mean stupid and smelly respectively in Malay, said the department. Gen Z slang like “Skibidi” has also made the list of names to be avoided.
What does sigma mean? Sigma is an Internet slang term, especially among young men, referring to a man whose self-assured, dogged individualism is considered a model of status, success, and attractiveness. It can also mean “extremely good,” and is also widely used as a nonsense term and meme online.
Initially meaningless, “Skibidi,” also spelled “Skibidy” or “Skibity,” has evolved into a slang term among kids and teens. Depending on the context, it can mean something is “bad” or “cool.”
Yeet is also used as an interjection, most often to express excitement or enthusiasm. Update: This word was added in September 2022. When a new word starts making the rounds, we don't just yeet it into the dictionary the first time we encounter it.
Skibidi which started off as a nonsense word on social media. It is now defined in the dictionary as "a word that can have different meanings such as 'cool' or 'bad', or can be used with no real meaning as a joke'.
Coco is a gender-neutral name of French origin with Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian roots. This name is a reference to the chocolate bean, translating to “cocoa.” Along with the sweet confection, Coco can also be a French term meaning "darling," always reminding your little one of how much you mean to them.
Ming is a gender-neutral name with Chinese origins that can have a variety of meanings depending on which characters are used to write it. Arguably, the more popular meanings include “bright” or “clear,” making it a great choice to match baby's bright future and potential for brilliance.
What does GYAT mean? This slang is used in reaction to seeing an attractive person, particularly with a large bottom. The word can be used as an acronym for "girl your a** thicc" or an abbreviation for "go*d**n". For instance, you might see “gyat” or “gyattttt” in the Instagram comments for someone like Kim Kardashian.
The earliest known use of the noun zat is in the 1930s. OED's earliest evidence for zat is from 1934, in Humorist. zat is a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: English how's that.
To tase is to attack with a Taser or other stun weapon, typically with the goal of incapacitation. Tase comes from Taser, but in common usage it is used to refer to the action of using any such device (commonly called a stun gun). It is also spelled as taze.
