As TikTok slang and social media catchphrases seep into everyday speech, Cambridge Dictionary has expanded its online edition with 6,000 new entries, including "skibidi," "delulu," and "tradwife."
Cambridge Dictionary defines "skibidi" as a versatile slang word meaning "cool," "bad," or sometimes nothing at all, and "delulu" as a playful take on "delusional," used for believing something unreal by choice.
For those less immersed in online culture, such phrases may read like gibberish.
Language can be a playground, and words can be as quirky and unpredictable as the characters in a Wes Anderson film. From "absquatulate" to "MacGyver," the English language has revamped itself to accept the utterly absurd and make it official!
In this gallery, we've compiled 30 words that have breached the fortress of formal vocabulary and landed in the dictionary. So get your notepad out and get ready to write down some of the quirkiest lexemes around. Just click on!