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photolurker

noun

Etymology

From photo + lurker.

  1. derived from *lūrukōną✻ — “to be lying in wait, lurk”
  2. derived from *lúrka✻
  3. inherited from lurken
  4. suffixed as lurker — “lurk + er”
  5. compounded as photolurker — “photo + lurker”

Definitions

  1. One who seeks out and views online pictures posted by people he or she does not know.

    • Photolurkers spent most of their time online flicking through photograph albums posted by strangers.
    • Perhaps the photolurkers aren't entirely to blame. Some photographers are posting their most private moments online, without any password protection, for all the world to see.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for photolurker. 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