“Skibidi”, “tradwife”, and “delulu” are some of the new words that have made it to this year’s Cambridge Dictionary, symbolising the increasing influence of the TikTok generation on the English language.
Well, some of us might have hoped that such neologisms would be a passing internet craze, but the dictionary compilers feel that they are here to stay. It’s not every day that words like these get added to the Cambridge Dictionary. It is only when such terms have a huge staying power across the globe. So the older generation, sometimes completely unaware of these terminologies, needs to get comfortable with them.
“Internet culture is changing the English language and the effect is fascinating to observe and capture in the dictionary,” said Cambridge Dictionary lexical programme manager, Colin McIntosh.
The Alpha Generation often use it to add emphasis to statements, while some of these terms actually do not carry any meaning.
Other new entries in the dictionary include ‘Mouse Jiggler’, “Work Spouse’ and ‘Broligarchy’.
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