Overview

• The online edition grew by roughly 6,000 words, phrases and meanings over the past year, drawing from the Cambridge English Corpus.
• New social media–born slang such as skibidi, delulu and tradwife entered the dictionary after spreading on TikTok, YouTube and influencer channels.
• Contemporary debates are captured by terms like mouse jiggler for remote-work automation, forever chemical for persistent pollutants and broligarchy for concentrated tech leadership.
• Lexical programme manager Colin McIntosh said editors track frequency and context to add only those words they judge likely to endure.
• Several additions gained mainstream visibility through high-profile uses, from Kim Kardashian’s skibidi necklace to Anthony Albanese’s “delulu with no solulu” in parliament.