Cambridge Dictionary debuts its latest words.

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The Cambridge Dictionary has released over six thousand new words, some of which include slang terms popularised on social media.  Josh McMinn reports.

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00:00Have you got skibbity riz? Would you call yourself a trad wife? Now if you didn't

00:06understand any of what I just said that's okay because as of this week you

00:10can now look up those words in the Cambridge dictionary. But to find out if

00:14the general public know what those words mean and if they should be in the

00:17dictionary at all I'm out here today on Rochester High Street let's go find out.

00:22So do you know the word skibbity means? No I don't. What about trad wife?

00:29No. Delulu? No. Have you heard the word skibbity before?

00:36Lover in my life. Any guesses as to what it might mean? Skibbity. A way to move I don't know.

00:44Get moving? No. Like if something's skibbity it's it's good right? Or it can be bad.

00:52Or it could be bad. Is it kind of an endearing word? A word that can have

01:01different meanings such as cool or bad and can be used with no real meaning as a

01:04joke. Fair enough. Yeah I might use that then. Okay let's try another one. What about trad wife?

01:09Trad wife? Like like a housewife? Trad wife could be like an old-fashioned wife but the

01:18ones who cook and clean. And what would you call that? Pandering to their needs.

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