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egoscan

noun

Etymology

From ego + scan.

  1. derived from *skend-✻
  2. inherited from scanne — “to mark off verse to show metrical structure”
  3. compounded as egoscan — “ego + scan”

Definitions

  1. A brief search of a publication for one's name.

    • *blush* I peek my nose in to r.a.sf.f for the first time in ages, and get a BINGO on the egoscan! Wowie zowie!
    • Nice to see my article on running into all the wonderful Vegans down in LA. I must admit to doing an egoscan to see how it turned out, and of course, it was wonderfully done.

  2. To quickly search a publication for one's name.

    • Egoscan: To check through a fanzine for references [...] concerning oneself.
    • Every now and then I egoscan, as more and more people have been asking my permission to use excerpts from my reviews in their letters column.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for egoscan. 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