Do you know your skibidi from your delulu? Both are among the new words to be added to the Cambridge Dictionary.

One of the world’s largest glossaries of words has grown by another 6,000 terms and phrases in the past 12 months, reflecting new trends and topics, from climate change to familial relationships.

So what’s new in the ultimate lexical library this year? Prepare to indulge in a word salad.

1. What the skibidi are you talking about?

Perhaps the most bizarre addition to the Cambridge Dictionary is skibidi.

And if that sounds like a nonsense word, that’s because it’s gibberish.

Like most gibberish, skibidi doesn’t actually have any direct meaning.

In fact it’s defined in the dictionary as ‘a word that can have different meanings such as ‘cool’ or ‘bad’, or can be used with no

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