August 18, 2025 • 5 mins
Em Gillespie joins Jonesy & Amanda with the latest in entertainment.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gem Nation with.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The news it's fit to print M. Gillespian.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
That's entertainment.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Bitter print is an apt description because we're talking about
the Cambridge Dictionary, which has just added a fresh batch
of words to make us all feel very, very old
and out of the picture. These are mostly shaped by
TikTok culture social media references, so I thought we'd break
down some of the highlights so hopefully we can all
(00:29):
commit this to memory and be very impressive the next
time we're around Gen.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Alpha and how old is Jen Alpha?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Jen Alpha are in high school right now.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So these are words that are going into the dictionary
just as regular words. They're not Hey, here's some new
kid words. It's here a regular words.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's fully committed to the database of the Cambridge Dictionary,
as in the big one run by the University of
Cambridge in the UK. Oxford jury is still out for them,
so we'll wait and see.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Elbow patches a kimbo.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
The first.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
This one is skibbity.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Now, from my research, the more you try to understand skibberty,
the less you know. It's definition, according to Cambridge, a
flexible word that can mean cool, bad, or nothing.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
At all is about language.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
We're taking away anything that's descriptive about language.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It's often just used for emphasis or as a joke.
Now the origin of it gets even more confusing. This
word skibbity shot to fame with this viral YouTube series
called Skibbety Toilet, which I can only describe as entirely bizarre.
It features these kind of like weird animated human heads
in toilets. It's very dystopian, nothing really happens. Example sentence,
(01:42):
what the skibbity are you doing? My fiance is a
school teacher, so I asked him about skibbety and the
look in his eyes I can only describe as a
sort of PTSD response, So I didn't want to push
it with him.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's interesting that it's okay that kids have their own language.
That's fine. But if it's a word that means nothing,
that's fine on their terms. But to have that now
in the dictionary, a word that means nothing, it's hugely
insulting to me.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It's in our day. Someone say the other day.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Unreal, I say, unreal.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I do, But at least that makes linguistic sense, like real,
like you cant and two together. People are jen alpha
tend to greet this word with despair, like US writer
and artist Lee Escabido, who wrote in the Guardian quote
skibberty brain rod encapsulates a generation fluent in irony but
(02:37):
starved for meaning. Oh yes, this kind of hyper chaotic
media serves as both entertainment and an ambient worldview for
young men raised online. Their minds normalize prank as expression.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh that's a great parent.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You'd like that one, Amanda. Yes, well, let's move on
from skibberty. That one can stay in the toilet trad
wife has also been added to the Cambridge Dictionary this year. Now,
if you're not across this kind of social media movement,
it's a conservative woman who really embraces the kind of
traditional roles of wifehood. When I say traditional, I mean
like eighteen hundreds very home based duties. It's really an
(03:16):
influencer subculture, a lot of baking and homemaking, which looks
very pretty on the surface, Yes, lovely.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
It's pretty different to people who are actually living that life.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yes, but then there's this kind of deeper conservative political
sort of subtext underneath all of that. It's been criticized
for romanticizing outdated gender roles. So that's traadwife. Another one
which I'm sure you're across, de lulu.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I think Anthony Alberinezi used it yesterday. He did.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
He used it earlier this year when he said that
the opposition was de lulu with no sululu, delusional with
no solution.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
He made up s lulu though, didn't he I heok.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Went full rip off of it started as an insult
towards K pop obsessive fan. So that's from the internet.
One thing I hadn't heard of this one broler garchy.
Now this is bro and oligarchy. It's a term used
to describe tech industry leaders, many of whom are responsible
for some of these terrible words that we're talking about.
(04:16):
So example sentence, some say Silicon Valley is run by
a broler garky.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah right, quite liked that one. But two more for you.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Mouse jiggler.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
This is a good one.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
A device or software that moves your cursor to make
it look like you're working when you're not. So it
keeps your computer active and makes the mouse move around
the screen. So if the boss goes, are you online
the little green dots activated? But maybe you're down at
the nail salon getting a fresh shot.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
When you're at home with a mouse jiggler, a mouse
jiggling all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And then I thought this was a really nice one
to finish on work spouse a colleague you have a close, supportive,
almost partner like relationship with, but strictly in the workplace. So,
for example, use it in a sentence Jones and Amanda
are still looking for their work spouse.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I'm still waiting, still waiting for that.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
What about some of my ones?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
What are your ones?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Al Goo, that's not like algorithm? Thank you, TZ love
terrible terrible. Actually that works perfectly.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
That's TZ terrible terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, what if your name's Terrence and you get like TZ?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
For sure, they're just shortenings. They're not you.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
What about tomasa pan? Is that when you take tmazapan
tomorrow tomorrow? But I'll see you Tomas.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Actually your explanation of it was better than I'll take
that drug tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
The CDA is reviewing. Put them in the book.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Catch at the Daily Oz
And Amanda gem Nation with.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The news it's fit to print M. Gillespian.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
That's entertainment.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Bitter print is an apt description because we're talking about
the Cambridge Dictionary, which has just added a fresh batch
of words to make us all feel very, very old
and out of the picture. These are mostly shaped by
TikTok culture social media references, so I thought we'd break
down some of the highlights so hopefully we can all
(00:29):
commit this to memory and be very impressive the next
time we're around Gen.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Alpha and how old is Jen Alpha?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Jen Alpha are in high school right now.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So these are words that are going into the dictionary
just as regular words. They're not Hey, here's some new
kid words. It's here a regular words.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's fully committed to the database of the Cambridge Dictionary,
as in the big one run by the University of
Cambridge in the UK. Oxford jury is still out for them,
so we'll wait and see.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Elbow patches a kimbo.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
The first.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
This one is skibbity.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Now, from my research, the more you try to understand skibberty,
the less you know. It's definition, according to Cambridge, a
flexible word that can mean cool, bad, or nothing.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
At all is about language.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
We're taking away anything that's descriptive about language.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
It's often just used for emphasis or as a joke.
Now the origin of it gets even more confusing. This
word skibbity shot to fame with this viral YouTube series
called Skibbety Toilet, which I can only describe as entirely bizarre.
It features these kind of like weird animated human heads
in toilets. It's very dystopian, nothing really happens. Example sentence,
(01:42):
what the skibbity are you doing? My fiance is a
school teacher, so I asked him about skibbety and the
look in his eyes I can only describe as a
sort of PTSD response, So I didn't want to push
it with him.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
It's interesting that it's okay that kids have their own language.
That's fine. But if it's a word that means nothing,
that's fine on their terms. But to have that now
in the dictionary, a word that means nothing, it's hugely
insulting to me.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
It's in our day. Someone say the other day.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Unreal, I say, unreal.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I do, But at least that makes linguistic sense, like real,
like you cant and two together. People are jen alpha
tend to greet this word with despair, like US writer
and artist Lee Escabido, who wrote in the Guardian quote
skibberty brain rod encapsulates a generation fluent in irony but
(02:37):
starved for meaning. Oh yes, this kind of hyper chaotic
media serves as both entertainment and an ambient worldview for
young men raised online. Their minds normalize prank as expression.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh that's a great parent.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You'd like that one, Amanda. Yes, well, let's move on
from skibberty. That one can stay in the toilet trad
wife has also been added to the Cambridge Dictionary this year. Now,
if you're not across this kind of social media movement,
it's a conservative woman who really embraces the kind of
traditional roles of wifehood. When I say traditional, I mean
like eighteen hundreds very home based duties. It's really an
(03:16):
influencer subculture, a lot of baking and homemaking, which looks
very pretty on the surface, Yes, lovely.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
It's pretty different to people who are actually living that life.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yes, but then there's this kind of deeper conservative political
sort of subtext underneath all of that. It's been criticized
for romanticizing outdated gender roles. So that's traadwife. Another one
which I'm sure you're across, de lulu.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I think Anthony Alberinezi used it yesterday. He did.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
He used it earlier this year when he said that
the opposition was de lulu with no sululu, delusional with
no solution.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
He made up s lulu though, didn't he I heok.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Went full rip off of it started as an insult
towards K pop obsessive fan. So that's from the internet.
One thing I hadn't heard of this one broler garchy.
Now this is bro and oligarchy. It's a term used
to describe tech industry leaders, many of whom are responsible
for some of these terrible words that we're talking about.
(04:16):
So example sentence, some say Silicon Valley is run by
a broler garky.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah right, quite liked that one. But two more for you.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Mouse jiggler.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
This is a good one.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
A device or software that moves your cursor to make
it look like you're working when you're not. So it
keeps your computer active and makes the mouse move around
the screen. So if the boss goes, are you online
the little green dots activated? But maybe you're down at
the nail salon getting a fresh shot.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
When you're at home with a mouse jiggler, a mouse
jiggling all the time.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And then I thought this was a really nice one
to finish on work spouse a colleague you have a close, supportive,
almost partner like relationship with, but strictly in the workplace. So,
for example, use it in a sentence Jones and Amanda
are still looking for their work spouse.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I'm still waiting, still waiting for that.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
What about some of my ones?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
What are your ones?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Al Goo, that's not like algorithm? Thank you, TZ love
terrible terrible. Actually that works perfectly.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
That's TZ terrible terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, what if your name's Terrence and you get like TZ?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
For sure, they're just shortenings. They're not you.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
What about tomasa pan? Is that when you take tmazapan
tomorrow tomorrow? But I'll see you Tomas.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Actually your explanation of it was better than I'll take
that drug tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
The CDA is reviewing. Put them in the book.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Catch at the Daily Oz
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