{"id":74408,"date":"2025-08-18T01:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74408\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T01:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:21:07","slug":"skibidi-and-tradwife-among-words-added-to-cambridge-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74408\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Skibidi&#8217; and &#8216;tradwife&#8217; among words added to Cambridge Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Skibidi is defined in the dictionary as &#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;. An example of its use is &#8220;What the skibidi are you doing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reality TV star Kim Kardashian revealed her familiarity with the phrase when she posted a video on Instagram showing a necklace engraved with &#8220;skibidi toilet&#8221; \u2013 the name of the YouTube series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as new phrases, some shortened versions of existing terms have been added, including &#8220;delulu&#8221; \u2013 a play on the word &#8220;delusional&#8221;, with a similar definition: &#8220;believing things that are not real or true, usually because you choose to&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An increase in remote working since the pandemic has seen &#8220;mouse jiggler&#8221; \u2013 a device or piece of software used to make it seem as though you are working when you are not \u2013 gain its place in the dictionary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some composite terms such as &#8220;broligarchy&#8221; have also been added. Merging &#8220;bro&#8221; and &#8220;oligarchy&#8221;, it means &#8220;a small group of men, especially men owning or involved in a technology business, who are extremely rich and powerful, and who have or want political influence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was used to describe tech leaders Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg attending Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skibidi is defined in the dictionary as &#8220;a word that can have different meanings such as &#8216;cool&#8217; or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-74408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}