Verboticism: Phototistical

'That's me in the mirror. Oh my gawd, is that me too?'

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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Narcissersnap

Created by: Jabberwocky

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Sentence: It's essential for the truly self absorbed to narcissersnap on a daily basis.

Etymology: derived from the Greek word Narcissus, combined with snap (as in snap a picture)

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COMMENTS:

franke You nailed it! Is that because you -- or your children -- secretly do this? - franke, 2006-10-30: 11:10:00

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Ifotome

Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: i-fo-to-me

Sentence: The trick with ifotome is to catch your subject by surprize. It requres a great deal of patience.

Etymology: Just the way it sounds

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Meibowitz

Created by: deadpanwalking

Pronunciation: ME-bo-witz

Sentence: Her photo on myspace is clearly a meibowitz, she even tried to light her good side.

Etymology: famed portrait photo annie leibowitz + me

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Selfphotogratification

alecstevenson

Created by: alecstevenson

Pronunciation: self-photo-grat-ification

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Egotography

Created by: babel

Pronunciation: Ee-go-tog-raf-ee

Sentence: "When egotography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital 'I'." - adapted from Vicki Goldberg

Etymology: ego: I [Latin] -tography: the act of writing, drawing or recording [from graph, an instrument for writing, drawing, or recording, from French -graphe, from Late Latin -graphus, from Greek -graphos, from graphein, to write]

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Flickrbitionism

bjorn

Created by: bjorn

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Etymology: Flickr + exhibitionism

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Reflectograph

Created by: jrogan

Pronunciation: re-flect-oh-graph

Sentence: Her reflectograph was perfect, except everything was backwards.

Etymology: reflect + oh! + graph

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Phototistical

Created by: queeny

Pronunciation: foe-toe-tis-ick-al

Sentence: Cindy Crawford has nothing on me. I'm so phototistical. Just look at these wonderful shots of me.

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