skibidy

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#1·1d ago

(Internet slang, uncommon) Non-lexical]] vocable used in scat singing.

Stranger Than Paradise ... I put a spell on you- ooww, mumbo jumbo skibidy-doo, heheh ha. At the Circle West End.

Origin: Perhaps originally popularised by the 1994 song "Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)" by American musician Scatman John, although the original lyric was transcribed differently: "Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub". Which in turn was preceded by, and perhaps influenced by, skippity in doo-wop, as in The Five Satin's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VufQZlTpinQ "Skippity Doo"] (1959), and others such as Disney show tune Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah (1946). Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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