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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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Tagogle
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: tah gawg uhl
Sentence: Tag, the teenager, was at that stage where he was such an egonormous (enormous ego) he tagogled his name, and all his zone names, daily!
Etymology: Combination of tag, ogle, google. Tag - synonymous with name. Ogle - an intense looking. Google - the web word for an internet search.
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COMMENTS:
Welcome back, Silveryaspen! - Nosila, 2008-11-18: 20:42:00
Welcome back, Silveryaspen! - Nosila, 2008-11-18: 20:42:00
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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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Egoogle
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ee go gil
Sentence: When Harry was trying to "find himself", he frequently would egoogle his name. He was always amazed at how many Harry Hamsters there were around the world. The sad part was that they all seemed to be having more exciting lives than he was.
Etymology: Ego (your consciousness of your own identity;an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others)& Google (popular Internet search engine...The company was named after a mispelling of googol, one followed by a hundred zeros, supposed to indicate that the site wants to provide a huge amount of information)
Egoogle
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ee/guh/go
Sentence: Joe loves to ogle his ego, so he googles his name and egoogles himself.
Etymology: EGOOGLE - verb from EGO (the “I” or self of any person) + OGLE (to look at amorously)
Weegob
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: wee-gob
Sentence: Harry left no hair unturned during his weegob internet searches, for those were his brush strokes for his psyche.
Etymology: the word ego in the word web ... weegob ...
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COMMENTS:
love the etymology - Jabberwocky, 2008-01-23: 12:55:00
Very interesting blend! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-23: 16:01:00
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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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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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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)
Dogpileofthevanity
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: dog-pile-of-the-vanity
Sentence: He glanced surreptitiously at his ultraportable laptop. He liked using the mini laptop because he could easily conceal it. He had no wish to disclose just how bad a case of dogpileofthevanity he had. Every 20 minutes he would FIRE up DogPile and search for his name. Too bad he kept getting thousands of results for canines, but with a name like Wolfe that was always going to happen.
Etymology: dogpile (metasearch engine) + vanity (excessive pride in one's appearance) + bonfire of the vanities (burning of sinful objects - Falò delle vanità & a novel written by Tom Wolfe)
Gluttegon
Created by: scrink
Pronunciation: gluht-ee-goh-in
Sentence: Where'd Tom go? He's such a gluttegon, you have to know he's searching for a WiFi connection to see what people are saying about his ankle cast.
Etymology: Glutton - a person with a remarkably great desire or capacity for something Ego - the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
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