Verboticism: Imonimania
DEFINITION: v. To look up your own name on a search engine. n., The practice of using a search engine as a tool for self-realization, or perhaps just self-gratification, by repeatedly searching for information about yourself.
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Selfgooglefication
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: self/googl/fi/cay/shun
Sentence: It gave him such selfgooglefication to google himself on the internet that he developed a google giggle and sore fingertips.
Etymology: self-gratification + google
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COMMENTS:
Sounds kind of kinky. - Mustang, 2008-11-14: 07:03:00
I'm sure there is a self-help group for that somewhere! Good Word... - Nosila, 2008-11-14: 21:54:00
Did he succumb to goo, goo-googly eyes like Barney - OZZIEBOB, 2008-11-16: 04:53:00
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Gluttegon
Created by: scrink
Pronunciation: gluht-ee-goh-in
Sentence: Where'd Tom go? He's such a gluttegon, you have to know he's searching for a WiFi connection to see what people are saying about his ankle cast.
Etymology: Glutton - a person with a remarkably great desire or capacity for something Ego - the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought.
Egoogle
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ee go gil
Sentence: When Harry was trying to "find himself", he frequently would egoogle his name. He was always amazed at how many Harry Hamsters there were around the world. The sad part was that they all seemed to be having more exciting lives than he was.
Etymology: Ego (your consciousness of your own identity;an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others)& Google (popular Internet search engine...The company was named after a mispelling of googol, one followed by a hundred zeros, supposed to indicate that the site wants to provide a huge amount of information)
Iselfasise
Created by: Dougalistic
Pronunciation: I-self-a-size
Sentence: He's such a tart always going on google and yahoo and msn search looking for himself, thinking he is some kind of superstar..' What? He doesn't iselfasise about himself does he?? What a poof.
Etymology: 'I' referring to the Internet, I-search, I-cam etc.. Self - That's self explanitory. Just asise as in fantasise, mesmerise etc..
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COMMENTS:
I C U ... through the net of cyberspace. Good job! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-23: 18:06:00
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Investibation
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: in-vest-a-bat-ion
Sentence: No satisfied to simply investibate by themselves at home behind a computer, numerous celebrities have asked NBC to lend a helping hand. In a strange kind of reverse prostitution, NBC is paying the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Susan Sarandon and Lisa Kudrow for the rights to compile genealogical history on their families. These histories are then recounted for the celebrities and anybody with a TV antenna. The show, called "Who Do You Think You Are" is Kimberly's favorite.
Etymology: investigation + (something else)
Googlewacked
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: goo ghul waakd
Sentence: Jeremy was so googlewacked, he began grabbing the phonebook and Googling other people named Jeremy.
Etymology: Google (popular search engine) + wacked (crazy, obsessed)
Selfgooglefication
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: self/googl/fi/cay/shun
Sentence: It gave him such selfgooglefication to google himself on the internet that he developed a google giggle and sore fingertips.
Etymology: self-gratification + google
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COMMENTS:
Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-23: 15:59:00
Is that like a baby giggle ... goo goo ??? Delightful sentence! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-23: 17:55:00
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Selfsearcher
Created by: mzzmee265
Pronunciation: self-searcher
Sentence: I am a selfsearcher because i love to look my self up.
Etymology: self-you; searcher-to search
Imonimania
Created by: Buzzardbilly
Pronunciation: ˈī-mä-nə-mā-nē-ə
Sentence: Since the article came out, he seems to be suffering from imonimania; he's worried he'll miss a word printed about him on the net.
Etymology: I + monomania (mental illness especially when limited in expression to one idea or area of thought or excessive concentration on a single idea), but with "moni" instead of "mono" to reflect "monitor" (both the verb and the screen)
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Yawhooami
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /yah-HOO-em-ai/ -may also be yodeled
Sentence: Besides having an inflated sense of self-importance, Mike was always wondering if people were blogging about him, (and honestly, he wondered why people didn't spend more time blogging about him) so he would Yawhooami himself almost every day.
Etymology: Blend of, Yahoo! - the search engine ('yahoo' was coined by Swift in Gulliver's Travels) + who-am-I [?] - one of the most fundamental philosophical questions of existence (also a handy Unix/Linux command "whoami" used to display one's own user info)
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COMMENTS:
That's right up my super highway. Niche! - scrabbelicious, 2008-01-23: 11:16:00
Very clever! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-23: 16:03:00
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