Vibe (noun)
vaiyb
a general feeling or sensation that someone gets or has about something.
Vibe is an Americanism that dates back to 1965–70 and is often used in the plural as in, good vibes, although a revival of the word in the 2020s prefers the singular ‘vibe’. Vibe was created by shortening the word vibration(s) in the sense of “instinctive feelings supposedly influencing human communication,” perhaps most famously used in the popular 1966 Beach Boys song, “Good Vibrations.”
Example sentences
“I didn’t like the vibe in there and wanted to leave as soon as possible.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
