egoboo

noun
/ˈiːɡəʊˌbuː/

Etymology

Blend of ego + boost.

Definitions

  1. The pleasant feeling derived from seeing one's name in print.

    • Well after the pile of ego-boo I got in the Oct. issue I just couldn't let it slip by without telling you what I think of this much heralded issue.
    • Fandom may be defined as an infinitely complex system for the production of pure egoboo. Indeed, the universe itself was created for egoboo (Psalms 145:10) if we are to believe the stories.
    • So this lustrum, yhos sits upon a bed of laurels, basking in the glow of past achievement and anticipating fresh shipments of egoboo, while Terry Hughes does the donkey drudgery of producing this issue.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for egoboo. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA