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microfame

noun

Etymology

From micro- + fame.

  1. derived from *bʰéh₂-meh₂✻
  2. derived from fāma — “talk, rumor, report, reputation”
  3. derived from fame — “celebrity, renown”
  4. inherited from fame
  5. prefixed as microfame — “micro + fame”

Definitions

  1. Small-scale fame.

    • But if the band’s three sold-out shows this week at the Bowery Ballroom are any indication, it is still basking in the microfame bestowed over the last year by zealous bloggers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for microfame. 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