The terms, which started as online slang, are expected to have staying power. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta A gibberish word, a gender-regressive label and the shorthand for delusional thinking have all ...

Popular internet slang terms like "skibidi," "delulu" and "tradwife" are now recognized as words in the Cambridge Dictionary. The dictionary, which is published by Cambridge University Press and ...

What the skibidi is happening to the English language? “Skibidi” is one of the slang terms popularized by social media that are among more than 6,000 additions this year to the Cambridge Dictionary.

The Cambridge Dictionary recently updated its definitions for “woman” and “man” to include transgender people, becoming the latest dictionary to formally expand what it means to be a woman. A ...

Cambridge Dictionary defines “Parasocial” as “involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, ...

On Wednesday, Cambridge Dictionary announced that its 2023 word of the year is "hallucinate," owing to the popularity of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, which sometimes produce erroneous ...

Do you know what a 'mouse jiggler' is? SOCIAL media slang words skibidi, tradwife and delulu have been added to the Cambridge Dictionary. They are among thousands of new expressions, which also ...

'Nomophobia', a word used to describe stress and anxiety caused by being separated from a mobile phone, has been deemed the Cambridge Dictionary’s inaugural People’s Word of the Year, beating entries ...

The Cambridge Dictionary has named "parasocial" its Word of the Year for 2025, reflecting a significant shift in digital-age connections. This term describes one-sided emotional bonds with public ...

Every year, dictionaries come to a verdict of a “Word of the Year” which is a single word that captures the spirit, concerns, or mood of that year. For 2025, the Cambridge Dictionary has selected a ...

The Cambridge Dictionary has embraced internet culture by adding 6,000 new words, including TikTok slang like 'skibidi,' 'delulu,' and 'tradwife.' This update reflects how deeply online trends now ...