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DEFINITION: v. To look up your own name on a search engine. n., The practice of using a search engine as a tool for self-realization, or perhaps just self-gratification, by repeatedly searching for information about yourself.
Verboticisms
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Egoogle
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ego/ogle
Sentence: He loves to igoogle so he egoogle himself for hours a week, just to make himself feel important.
Etymology: ego + ogle (check out)
Cybessence
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: sahy-BES-uhns
Sentence: Seeking cybiquity, and in order to enhance his cybessence, Bob "U-tubed", "My-faced" and verbotomized from morning to night.
Etymology: CYBERESSENCE:(cyber&essence)Who one is in Cyberspace; ones name, image, works and deeds; ones life, very being, identifiable characteristics as a cyberoid. 2, CYBIQUITY: (cyber & ubiquity)-being everywhere at the same moment in cyberspace.
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COMMENTS:
so that's what you do all day - Jabberwocky, 2008-01-23: 12:56:00
Wow ... what a way to put your ego essence into cyber space! (wink) (lol) - silveryaspen, 2008-01-23: 18:03:00
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Selfsearcher
Created by: mzzmee265
Pronunciation: self-searcher
Sentence: I am a selfsearcher because i love to look my self up.
Etymology: self-you; searcher-to search
Egoogetter
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ēgoōgetər
Sentence: To say that John is ego-centric is like saying that the sun is a little bit larger than the moon. He is the premier egoogetter. Every spare moment is spent running his name through every search engine he knows. He spent his summer vacation trying to get to the last page of a Google search. When he didn't get as many hits as he wanted he found a website where he could legally change his last name to Doe. It doesn't matter that the hits don't refer to him specifically, he just loves to see his name. He gets practically giddy when he watches a crime show and they have an unidentified male victim.
Etymology: e (electronic) + ego (a person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance) + Google (proprietary name of a popular Internet search engine) + go-getter (an aggressively enterprising person)
Egotistigoogle
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ee - go - TIS - tuh - googl
Sentence: Seth was such an egomaniac he spent much of his surfing effort egotistigoogling hoping to find that he was being discussed favorably on the net.
Etymology: Egotistical + google searching
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COMMENTS:
excellent! you'll be seeing a lot more of yourself in future! - galwaywegian, 2008-01-23: 04:57:00
lol, cool word! 8) - Dougalistic, 2008-01-23: 07:22:00
Funny Galway man. Who'd a thunk it! - scrabbelicious, 2008-01-23: 11:20:00
Good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-23: 15:59:00
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Mesearch
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈmisɚtʃ/ /MEE-surch/
Sentence: As I have seventeen different online identities, doing mesearch is quite time consuming.
Etymology: from "me" + "search" (reminiscent of "research")
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COMMENTS:
Short and clever ... better than ever! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-23: 18:07:00
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Googurbate
Created by: asdas
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I'm worried about our son Steve, he just sits in his room all day and googurbates.
Etymology: Google (a popular search engine) + Masturbate (sexual gratification through self-stimulation)
Enansim
Created by: Banky
Pronunciation: E-nan-is-im
Sentence: James spent upwards of six hours that day, deliberately but gently stroking the keys, in a desperate fit of Enanism. The box of Kleenex disappeared eventually, as dawning realization of a life doomed to booleanonymity drove him to tears.
Etymology: e - as in electronic, Onanism - from the biblical tale of Onan, master of seed spilling ---- boolean - the system of logical operations used in many engines, anonymity - to be unidentified
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COMMENTS:
The etymology is amazing! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-23: 17:53:00
Excellent word. And, it's a twofer. - Buzzardbilly, 2008-01-23: 19:15:00
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Yahegoo
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Yar-hee-goo
Sentence: Brian was so self-obsessed he spent most of his time on the internet entering his own name into search engines. He would yahegoo everyday just to check if there had been any new sites created overnight.
Etymology: Yahoo(a search engine) + Ego(a sense of oneself,self-importance)
Yawhooami
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /yah-HOO-em-ai/ -may also be yodeled
Sentence: Besides having an inflated sense of self-importance, Mike was always wondering if people were blogging about him, (and honestly, he wondered why people didn't spend more time blogging about him) so he would Yawhooami himself almost every day.
Etymology: Blend of, Yahoo! - the search engine ('yahoo' was coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels) + who-am-I [?] - one of the most fundamental philosophical questions of existence (also a handy Unix/Linux command "whoami" used to display one's own user info)
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COMMENTS:
That's right up my super highway. Niche! - scrabbelicious, 2008-01-23: 11:16:00
Very clever! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-23: 16:03:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by yellowbird. Thank you yellowbird. ~ James
yellowbird - 2008-01-23: 12:32:00
I had to suggest this one, since it's impossible to say 'He googled himself." with a straight face. :)
bananabender - 2008-01-23: 18:56:00
Great words to-day folks! Another fun day!
Hi everyone, thought I'd come back and see if there were some new cartoons. Some real die hards still here I see.
Nosila - 2008-11-14: 22:00:00
Welcome back, petaj...hope you are rejoining us soon! Cheers!
mweinmann - 2008-11-15: 08:24:00
I am going on vacation....no words from me next week. Have a great word week. I have given my logon to my daughter who is great with words but she probably won't have time to create any!!
Today's definition was suggested by yellowbird. Thank you yellowbird. ~ James