Verboticism: Autome
DEFINITION: To take a picture of yourself, pointing a camera at yourself, while you admire yourself. Often done in the privacy of your bathroom.
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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
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.
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
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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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
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
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.
Selflick
Created by: Benperson
Pronunciation: sell' flik
Sentence: Mary enjoys selflicking for her MySpace.
Etymology:
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)
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.
