The Cambridge Dictionary is updating its entries to reflect language changes influenced by younger generations and internet culture.

Among the newly added words are skibidi, delulu and tradwife.

“It’s not every day you get to see words like skibidi and delulu make their way into the Cambridge Dictionary," said Colin McIntosh, Lexical Programme Manager, Cambridge Dictionary. " We only add words where we think they'll have staying power. Internet culture is changing the English language and the effect is fascinating to observe and capture in the Dictionary.”

So what do these new words mean?

: A slang term that can mean “cool” or “bad,” or be used with no real meaning as a joke. It originated from the YouTube animated series Skibidi Toilet.

: A shorthand way of saying “delusional.”

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