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DEFINITION: To take a picture of yourself, pointing a camera at yourself, while you admire yourself. Often done in the privacy of your bathroom.
Verboticisms
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Myflect
Created by: Manhattan
Pronunciation: My-Flekt
Sentence: Anne was going to MyFlect but she realized how cliche it was so she put down the camera and picked up a good Evelyn Waugh novel -- perhaps it was Brideshead Revisited.
Etymology: From MySpace, the online community, and the word reflect.
Narcishoot
Created by: Flixst
Pronunciation: nar'si,ʃu:t
Sentence: The new phenomenon on the photosharing websites is the narcishooting
Etymology: narcisism + shoot(photography)
Portraflecting
Created by: adobrodt
Pronunciation: POR-tra-FLECK-ting
Sentence: Bob began to understand the story of Narcissus during one of his hours-long sessions of portraflecting.
Etymology: From portrait and reflecting.
Photomyre
Created by: camel
Pronunciation: photo-my-er
Sentence: We spent days in her bathroom just photomyring ourselves while listening to James Brown & smoking fine cigars.
Etymology: Photo, admire
Narcistography
Created by: geekgrrl
Pronunciation: närs-s-tgr-fee
Sentence: I just love taking photos - especially of myself. I am really into narcistography.
Etymology: Narcissist - Excessive love or admiration of oneself. Photography - The art, practice, or occupation of taking and printing photographs.
Egotistography
Created by: tinydancer
Pronunciation: ee-goh-tis-toe-graf-ee
Sentence: A MySpace is not complete without a well-angled egotistograph.
Etymology: egotistical + photography
Ifoto
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: eye-fo-to
Sentence: With her new digital camera, she ifotoed all Christmas day.
Etymology: Ifoto - As in Ipod, and the rest of the I phenomenon. It's all about me.
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COMMENTS:
Love the etymology. Good stuff. - fonka99, 2006-12-25: 18:33:00
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Paparazzegoing
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: paw-pa-rot-see-go-ing
Sentence: When paparazzegoing your picture to post online, be sure to check the background for tell-tale signs of toilet paper and other bathroom products.
Etymology: paparrazi, ego
Selfadortrait
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: salf-ah-door-trit
Sentence: He tried to invent a see-through camera so that his selfadortraits wouldn't seem so obvious
Etymology: self-portrait, adore
Autochromotica
Created by: danboaz
Pronunciation: aut-O-crO-maw-ti-caw
Sentence: Sally started to lose her friends because of her obssesive autocromoticism. But the pictures got better and better.
Etymology: auto + chromatic + a dash of erotic (represented by the second O)
Stareograph
Created by: Wriiight
Pronunciation: Stair - eee - oh - graff
Sentence:
Etymology: Stare (prolonged observence) + Stereo (double) + graph (picture)
Selfportraitism
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I'm going to have a go at selfportraitism in the bathroom
Etymology:
Egoshooting
Created by: lynx13
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "egoshooting" is when you are big-head-photoshooting yourself
Etymology:
Meography
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation: me og raf fi
Sentence: She prattled on about herself, stopping only to distribute a print of her meography that betrayed her self proclaimed empathy.
Etymology:
Narcissnap
Created by: fonka99
Pronunciation: Nar-ciss-snap
Sentence: When Gail feels a bit low, a session of narcissnapping always works wonders on her mood.
Etymology: Narcissism and Snapshot
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COMMENTS:
I just "joined" to see how big the group was behind this word. Now it seems I can't get out of the "group". Though I came up with the word independently I guess the first person ought to take credit. - vishalrix, 2006-12-26: 04:55:00
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Vanitography
Created by: ce0brb
Pronunciation: Van-o-tog-raphy
Sentence: Linda Loveherself was an avid vanotographer. She didn't really use her camera for anything else.
Etymology: Vanity & Photography
Narcissesch
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /"när-is-'esh/
Sentence: MySpace and Flickr photo galleries are suffering from a glut of photos of people narcissesching.
Etymology: from Narcissus + Escher
Capturcism
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: cap - sur - siz - um
Sentence: I caught my niece while she was having a capturcism moment.
Etymology: to capture your own narcissism
Autome
Created by: Adamson
Pronunciation: O-to-me
Sentence: Just made this great autome, look at my hair, do a capiloscan !
Etymology: Auto (automatic) + Me
Narcissem
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: narcissem
Sentence: narcissem is very good for your own EGO
Etymology: From Narcissus, who loved is own mirrorimage.
Whosthefairesting
Created by: Psychicsi
Pronunciation: who-s-the-fair-est-ing
Sentence: Jill spent so long in the bathroom whosthefairesting, that her date gave up and went home.
Etymology: From the wicked stepmother in the fairytale Snow White, who spent much time admiring herself in her magic mirror while asking "mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?"
Autoportradmiration
Created by: celeron450
Pronunciation: auto-por-trad-mir-a-shun
Sentence: When Vanessa saw the camera on the bathroom counter, she couldn't resist a little autoportradmiration.
Etymology: auto (self), portrait, admiration
Cockpicture
Created by: currentlyinsolitude
Pronunciation: cock-picture
Sentence: She enjoyed cockpicturing herself and then looking at the photos.
Etymology: It's cocky + picture...duh!
Narcissickness
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: nahr-sih-sik-nis
Sentence: She had photos of her face from every possible angle but her narcissickness kept her from having a normal life.
Etymology: Narcissistic + sickness
Myangles
Created by: weyrlady
Pronunciation: My-angles
Sentence: She's done a lot of myangling.
Etymology: A reference to the sort of photography that tends to show up on MySpace - the MySpace angles.
Photonarciate
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: foe-toe-nar-see-ate
Sentence: "What is she doing in there?" "Photonarciating." "Again?"
Etymology: photo- obvious narcissism - self-love (hahaha)
Egoflash
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: ee-goe-FLASH
Sentence: Jim used up the batteries on his new digital camera by egoflashing his privates all night long.
Etymology: ego + the flash of a camera
Admiritis
Created by: Flamechick911
Pronunciation: Ad-mir-itis
Sentence: I think I'm cursed with admiritis,everytime I get a camera in my hands I have to be by myself.
Etymology: itis-usually the meaning of the word it's at the end of is some kind of illness.
Selfpixalization
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: self/pix/a/lie/zay/shun
Sentence: With digital cameras, selfpixalization to get the perfect picture of myself is as easy as 1 - 2 - 3.
Etymology: self + pixals + actualization
Egotograph
Created by: Hjason
Pronunciation: e-go-to-graph
Sentence: Often times I have caught him in the bathroom taking egotographs of himself while he was in the shower.
Etymology: ego+photograph
Reflectographmiration
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: " ree-fleck-toe-graf-my-ray-tion"
Sentence: I am filled with reflectographmiration for myself
Etymology: from the words reflect, photograph, and admiration. All greek or something?
Selfpicturate
Created by: lucyof2009
Pronunciation: self-picture-ate
Sentence: I saw that new picture you put on your blog; did you selfpicturate?
Etymology: combination of "self" (as in yourself)and "picture" with the suffix "-ate" to make it a verb
Narcissify
Created by: twodigs
Pronunciation: nar-SIS-i-fi
Sentence: I like to narcissify before a date; it builds my confidence.
Etymology: from the Greek myth of Narcissus
Vainograph
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: vayn-oh-graf
Sentence: When you make a myspace or facebook you put up your vainograph if you are any self-respecting emo kid.
Etymology: vain+photograph
Selflick
Created by: Benperson
Pronunciation: sell' flik
Sentence: Mary enjoys selflicking for her MySpace.
Etymology:
Narcissnap
Created by: vishalrix
Pronunciation: Nar-ciss-snap
Sentence: When Gail feels a bit low, a session of narcissnapping always works wonders on her mood.
Etymology: Narcissism and Snapshot
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COMMENTS:
I just "joined" to see how big the group was behind this word. Now it seems I can't get out of the "group". Though I came up with the word independently I guess the first person ought to take credit. - vishalrix, 2006-12-26: 04:55:00
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Vanitoil
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: van-i-toyull
Sentence: Trying on the new blouse gave her the perfect opportunity to vanitoil.
Etymology: From "vanity" and "toilet" or "toil" meaning to work hard (this is sarcastic/ironic; perhaps a pun on a model who "works it")
Photowank
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: photo wank
Sentence: frank could not resist having a photowank in the hotel bathroom.
Etymology: well, thats a bit obvious really.
Narcitography
Created by: Coolfool
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
- Coolfool, 2006-12-25: 05:02:00
Here's the ending of my first post (narcitography): The ending of my first post(It was unexplainedly misplaced or pilfered by cybergoyles.)seems to have been misplaced. I turned away from my keyboard, and when I turned back, and my computer indicated th - Coolfool, 2006-12-25: 05:27:00
(Coolfool) Again, truncated. There must be a bit limit, ...computer indicated that my first post was submitted. I don't see it. See next post. - Coolfool, 2006-12-25: 05:31:00
My gist: Be kind, as this is my first post (I'll resort to any dingus to garner any panegyrism). - Coolfool, 2006-12-25: 05:36:00
- Coolfool, 2006-12-25: 05:37:00
Narcitography pronunciation: First two syllables, as in narcissism, last three (obvious)as in photography). I just walked in and don't know my way around here yet, so if I step on protocol, soory. I'll learn. - Coolfool, 2006-12-25: 05:43:00
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Reflectography
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: re-flek-TAWG-rah-fee
Sentence: Candice was renowned for her piles of blurry reflectography snapshots.
Etymology: Reflect + photography
Shelfportrait
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: shelf-por-trayt
Sentence: The magnifying mirror aligned perfectly with the camera for Sharon's shelfportrait.
Etymology: Shelf: a surface usually covered in personal possessions. Portrait: a pictorial representation of a person usually showing the face.
Selfography
Created by: Tukkertje
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I love myself so much, that every time I look in the mirror I selfograph myself.
Etymology: self(phot)ography
Myspacemoment
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: my-space-moe-ment
Sentence: Sherry took a myspacemoment in the bathroom when she took a picture of herself in the mirror and admired it.
Etymology: myspace (where people go to admire themselves) + moment
Myfacing
Created by: hermionesnape
Pronunciation: my-face-ing
Sentence: "My mom caught be myfacing in the bathroom, but I really needed a new picture for my site."
Etymology: from "myspace" and the art of posting one's mirror-reflected picture
Photegotism
Created by: Drock
Pronunciation: foe-TEE-goe-tiz-um (Foe and goe rhyme with "slow.")
Sentence: Even though she was Mandy's best friend, she hated it when her photegotism started to show.
Etymology: Photo, as in photograph. Egotism - excessive selfishness
Lavapictorialsnoberie
Created by: stormee
Pronunciation: Lava The (A) is long sound. pic-tor-ial/snob-erie
Sentence: Most days, you can find Chrissy in the bathroom,admiring herself and snapping away with her camera.
Etymology: Lava/ meaning lavatory. Pictorial/ a layout of pictures. Snoberie/ an obession with ones self.
Myspaceshoot
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: my'-space-shoot
Sentence: I was myspaceshooting myself last night and my MOM walked in. Ewww.
Etymology: because there are so many pics like this on myspace. so i hear.
Narcissigraph
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: nar cis' a graf
Sentence: Myspace has ushered in the age of the narcissigraph.
Etymology: narcissism + graph
Narcissograph
Created by: Guthlaf1
Pronunciation: nar-SISS-O-graff
Sentence: No week was complete without Janet taking at least three narcissographs in her room.
Etymology: From - Narcissus, a man from Greek mythology who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water Also - '-graph': the measurement, display or portrayal of a subject
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COMMENTS:
A vote from me - we thought very much alike on this one. - Stump, 2006-12-25: 05:13:00
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Eisoptrophotomania
Created by: omista
Pronunciation: I-sop-TRO-FO-to-MA-NE-a
Sentence: Her eisotropophotomania was getting so bad it was turning into agoraphobia.
Etymology: eisoptro- mirror, photo + mania
Narciphoto
Created by: Stump
Pronunciation: Narcee/photo
Sentence: The bathroom not being enough for her, Sally sought out funhouses to feed her narciphotoing habit.
Etymology: Mash of the root words narcissist and photography.
Imegin
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: Im-a-jen
Sentence: Cheryl was caught once again, imegining herself in the change room.
Etymology: I (myself) + me (myself) + imaging (creating images). With help from imagining (visualising) and mega (prefix used for describing pixels and bytes using in digital imaging)
Photolify
Created by: seifip
Pronunciation: photo l e fy
Sentence: I photolify myself in the privacy of my bathroom.
Etymology: photo + life
Narsnap
Created by: hairydoginparis
Pronunciation: nar-snap
Sentence: I narsnapped myself in the bathroom with a camera.
Etymology: nar-narrcissus snap-sound a camera makes
Comments:
bbooth3 - 2006-12-25: 15:41:00
bbooth3 - 2006-12-25: 15:42:00
admirroration
erasmus - 2006-12-27: 14:12:00
oohh I like admirroration.