I was on a rollercoaster with my kids recently and the ride, apparently, was “skibidi”.The hot dogs were also skibidi; the entire theme parkwas skibidi – but I, when I screeched about how I wasn’t going to spend another £15 on tokens for more goes on a giant teacup that spins you round fast enough to give you whiplash, thank you very much, was not skibidi. I was not skibidi at all.

I could have been, though – because the Gen Alphaslang term “skibidi toilet” (confused, yet?) can also mean something terrible, depending on the context in which it’s said and used. So, maybe I was skibidi?

Either way, this lexical nightmare has entered the dictionary. That’s right: “skibidi” is one of a plethora of 6,000 new words to have made it in to the Cambridge Dictionary, along with “delulu” (shorthand for “delusional” and once spoken out loud – in public – by the Australian PM Anthony Albanese, who said the Coalition was “delulu with no solulu”).

The term “tradwife”,which takes us right back to stereotypical 1950s gender roles, meaning women who choose to stay home looking after the children and cooking, also made the cut.

“Mouse jiggler” has also been added, meaning someone who uses a device to give the illusion they’re actually working when they’re WFH, which I’ve never heard of. How “brain rot”(Oxford’s word of the year for 2024) of me.