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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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Googlid
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: goōglid
Sentence: After years of psychoanalysis, Etheria has given up the leather couch in favor of the internet. Now she does daily searches for her googlid. She also tried searching for her googlego but that seemed too self-indulgent.
Etymology: Google (the proprietary name of a popular Internet search engine) + id (the part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest)
Googlego
Created by: vmalcolm
Pronunciation: /gugligeu/
Sentence: The new practice of googlego is the last trend. They say: If you don't appear, you don't exist.
Etymology: GOOGLEGO. From Google + Ego
Imonimania
Created by: Buzzardbilly
Pronunciation: ˈī-mä-nə-mā-nē-ə
Sentence: Since the article came out, he seems to be suffering from imonimania; he's worried he'll miss a word printed about him on the net.
Etymology: I + monomania (mental illness especially when limited in expression to one idea or area of thought or excessive concentration on a single idea), but with "moni" instead of "mono" to reflect "monitor" (both the verb and the screen)
Googelf
Created by: purpleman
Pronunciation: goog/elf
Sentence: i once googelfed myself
Etymology: google+self
Selfgooglefication
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: self/googl/fi/cay/shun
Sentence: It gave him such selfgooglefication to google himself on the internet that he developed a google giggle and sore fingertips.
Etymology: self-gratification + google
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COMMENTS:
Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-23: 15:59:00
Is that like a baby giggle ... goo goo ??? Delightful sentence! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-23: 17:55:00
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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)
Googlewacked
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: goo ghul waakd
Sentence: Jeremy was so googlewacked, he began grabbing the phonebook and Googling other people named Jeremy.
Etymology: Google (popular search engine) + wacked (crazy, obsessed)
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)
Googleworthy
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: goo - gull - wur - thee
Sentence: To find out if you are googleworthy, you must put your name in the search field and then, if you are someone worthwhile, your name will appear dozens of times with glowing references to your accomplishments. Your self-esteem will then be intact and you will have verified your importance, once again.
Etymology: Google (a popular search engine) + Worthy (deserving, having value)
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