Gen Z: This homework is so skibidi.
Boomer: So what? Are you having a stroke?
It means chaotic. Nonsensical. Totallly unhinged.
I think the work you’re looking for here is ‘difficult’.
Nah, skibidi isn’t just difficult. It’s more out-of-this-world crazy.
What about proper words like arduous, perplexing or bewildering? Check my dictionary upstairs – you’ll find some sensical vocabulary.
Skibidi is a legit word! It’s one of 6,212 new entries to the Cambridge Dictionary this year.
I saw this in The Times and agreed with the person who commented that ‘it only serves to make Scrabble harder’.
Skibidi is mad popular. Comes from Alexey Gerasimov’s Skibidi Toilet YouTube series, where an animated head spins in a toilet.
It was once the likes of Shakespeare who were creating new words. Now it’s a bloke who thinks that bathroom humour is the height of hilarity.
Shakespeare: the original maverick linguist
Bestie, his videos have amassed billions of views. Colin McIntosh from Cambridge Dictionary finds it ‘fascinating to observe and capture’ how the internet influences language.
Nominative determinism there with ‘tosh’. What other nonsense made the cut?
You know delulu?
The Lulu? ‘You know you make me wanna shout’ Lulu?
You’re cooked. Delulu as in ‘delusional’.
Ah yes, ‘delulu’ – as in thinking that the Cambridge Dictionary adding TikTok gibberish is progress rather than the decline of civilisation.
This one is legit world-leader approved. The Australian PM recently called his opposition ‘delulu with no solulu’.
It’s unbelievable. Even News.com.au, Australia’s largest news site, mentioned: ‘It sounds like something you might say after too many Mai Tais in Honolulu.’
That’s so awks.
I know that one! Awkward?
Yass! And what about gyatt?
Sounds like one of those cryptocurrency things to me. Should I be investing in gyatt coins?
Dying. Gyatt is described as: ‘A term used to express admiration, excitement, or surprise, particularly when encountering someone with an attractively large bottom.’
We’ve officially reached the point where caveman grunts about body parts qualify as dictionary-worthy language.
You sound cray-cray.
Would that be crazy?
Officially it’s ‘stupid or not reasonable’. But close enough.
As one X user writes: ‘So begins the second Renaissance.’
You’re too extra. There are serious ones, too.
Let me guess: ‘loo-vies’ for the genre of YouTube clips that exclusively revolve around talking toilets.
Lols. Anyway, there’s ‘broligarchy’ for a small group of really rich tech bros who have or want political influence.
In my day that was called ‘corruption’. But I suppose slapping ‘bro’ on the front distracts you youngsters from all that nastiness.
You’re just mad because Boomer slang was cringe. ‘Groovy’ and ‘far out’ – I’m cringing FR.
What does FR… oh, never mind. At least our slang didn’t originate from talking heads in the loo.
Sorry my generation is creative.
Creative? The English language is going down the pan.
See! You’re catching on. I’m christening you a Skibidi Boomer.
Skibi-done. Now bog off.
