{"id":60527,"date":"2025-08-18T18:33:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/cambridge-dictionary-adds-tiktok-words-to-new-edition"},"modified":"2025-08-18T19:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:20:05","slug":"cambridge-dictionary-adds-tiktok-words-to-new-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/cambridge-dictionary-adds-tiktok-words-to-new-edition","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge Dictionary adds TikTok words to new edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The Cambridge Dictionary has added a selection of new TikTok phrases to the English language.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternet culture is changing the English language and the effect is fascinating to observe and capture in the dictionary,\u201d said Cambridge Dictionary\u2019s lexical program manager, Colin McIntosh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not every day you get to see words like \u2018skibidi\u2019 and \u2018delulu\u2019 make their way into the Cambridge Dictionary. We only add words where we think they\u2019ll have staying power,\u201d McIntosh added.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cskibidi\u201d became popular thanks to Skibidi Toilet \u2013 a viral animated video that began on YouTube featuring human heads protruding from toilets.<\/p>\n<p>The Cambridge Dictionary defines skibidi as \u201ca word that can have different meanings such as \u2018cool\u2019 or \u2018bad\u2019, or can be used with no real meaning as a joke,\u2019 an example being: \u2018What the skibidi are you doing?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTradwife\u201d refers to socially conservative influencers who post on TikTok celebrating looking after their husbands, children and homes, while \u201cDelulu\u201d, an abbreviation of delusional, is defined as \u201cbelieving things that are not real or true, usually because you choose to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, people in older generations or those who don\u2019t use TikTok aren\u2019t particularly happy with the normalization of these words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSkibidi brainrot encapsulates a generation fluent in irony but starved for meaning. This kind of hyper-chaotic media serves as both entertainment and an ambient worldview for young men raised online. Their minds normalize prank-as-expression,\u201d US writer and artist Lee Escobedo said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Lesotho<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. The Cambridge Dictionary has added a selection of new TikTok phrases to the English language. \u201cInternet culture is changing the English language and the effect is fascinating to observe and capture in the dictionary,\u201d said Cambridge Dictionary\u2019s lexical program manager, Colin McIntosh. \u201cIt\u2019s not every day you get to see words like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":60525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[6359,245,1799],"class_list":["post-60527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-cambridge-dictionary","tag-lesotho","tag-tiktok"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cambridge Dictionary adds TikTok words to new edition - 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