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selfy

noun

Etymology

From self + -y.

  1. inherited from *selbʰ-✻ — “one's own”
  2. inherited from *selbaz✻
  3. inherited from self
  4. inherited from salve
  5. suffixed as selfy — “self + y”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of selfie.

    • The small business “brand,” like Mike's, is typically the small business founder, so pulling out a video camera and shooting a selfy can't be beat.

  2. Relating to the phenomenological human sense of self.

    • While a bat, like even the lowly lobster, has a biological self, it has no selfy self to speak of — no Center of Narrative Gravity

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for selfy. 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