Thousands of new words and expressions, among them popular slang of social media such as’skibidi“,”tradwife“And”delulu», They are about to be added this year to Dictionary of Cambridge.

Specifically, according to the Independentmore than 6,000 new terms They will join the dictionary, capturing everyday life and changes of modern life – by ‘mouse jiggler»Of teleworking up to the term ‘forever chemical“, Associated with the climate crisis.

The Slang “Skibidi” – a word without a specific meaning – has joined the last year. According to Cambridge, it can be used in different shades, from “cool” to “bad”, or just as a joke without meaning: “What the Skibidi Are You Doing?”

The word came from the viral cartoon series “Skibidi Toilet” on YouTube, and became even more popular when the Kim Kardashian She showed on Instagram a gift necklace from her daughter, engraved with the phrase “Skibidi Toilet”.

“Internet culture changes English and is exciting to observe and record these developments in the dictionary“, Colin Macindoslexical programs in Cambridge.

The term “tradwife” has also gained popularity thanks to social media. She is defined as a married woman staying at home to cook, clean and raise her children – “especially if she posts related content on social media,” the dictionary says.

At the same time, Cambridge also entered the abbreviated versions of existing words, such as “delulu”, a playful variant of “Delusional”, which describes the belief in things that are not true: “Believe something that is not true, usually because you choose it.”

“It is not a daily phenomenon to see words like ‘Skibidi’ and ‘delulu’ registered with Cambridge Dictionary,” Macindos stressed. “We only add conditions that we believe will endure the time.”

It is noted that the dictionary’s research base, the Cambridge English Corpusincludes over 2 billion written and oral words in English and monitors how new terms are used, with what frequency and in what context.

Increasing teleworking after the pandemic has helped to establish the term “mouse jiggler”, which describes a device or software that simulates activity on the computer, making it look like you work while you do not.

The term ‘was also added to the dictionary’broligarchy“, From the words Bro and Oligarchy. He describes “a small group of men – mainly in the field of technology – that are extremely rich, powerful and seek political influence” and used to describe them Jeff Bezos, Sun Mask and Mark Zuckerberg In his swearing -in Donald Trump the 2017.

Finally, new entries such as’WORK WIFE“And”work spouse»Recognize the close relationships of colleagues in the workplace where two people trust and support each other.