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phonecam

noun

Etymology

From phone + cam.

  1. derived from *(s)kambo-✻
  2. derived from *kambos✻
  3. derived from Granta
  4. compounded as phonecam — “phone + cam”

Definitions

  1. A camera built into a mobile phone.

    • Sending a picture taken with a phonecam as MMS may be fun on occasion, but sending thousands or millions of pictures is not the work of a casual user.
    • Phonecams are proliferating like mad, their tiny eyes fuzzily probing so many corners of public and private life that they have begun to alter how people communicate and recreate.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for phonecam. 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