Verboticism: Twint
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.
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Narcoogle
Created by: punkrider
Pronunciation: Nar-Sew-Guh-el
Sentence: Dude, I tried hard not to narcoogle myself tonight. It's really tough. Who knows what someone may have wrote about me in the last three minutes!
Etymology: Narcissist Googling
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COMMENTS:
Does anyone ever actually find anything about themselves by googling their own name? - punkrider, 2008-11-16: 04:11:00
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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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Egomaniagoogle
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ee-go-muh-NYA-googl
Sentence: Howard is full of himself, convinced he is God's gift to the rest of the world and has carried his egotistical ventures to new levels with his incessant egomaniagoogle efforts on the internet, and has even gone so far as to get the very latest in technology to speed up the process.
Etymology: Blend of egomania and 'google', a verb meaning to use the google search engine.
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COMMENTS:
very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-11-14: 09:17:00
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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)
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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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
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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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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
Googification
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: goōgəfikāshən
Sentence: in the ultimate act of googification, Joe had t-shirts made up that consisted of the results his self-googling. He perhaps could have been more proud if there was more on the web about him than his arrest record.
Etymology: google (a popular search engine) + gratification (pleasure or satisfaction)
