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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.
Verboticisms
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Egoogle
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ee/guh/go
Sentence: Joe loves to ogle his ego, so he googles his name and egoogles himself.
Etymology: EGOOGLE - verb from EGO (the “I” or self of any person) + OGLE (to look at amorously)
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
Mesearch
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈmisɚtʃ/ /MEE-surch/
Sentence: As I have seventeen different online identities, doing mesearch is quite time consuming.
Etymology: from "me" + "search" (reminiscent of "research")
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COMMENTS:
Short and clever ... better than ever! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-23: 18:07:00
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Idiosurf
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: ID-ee-UH-surf
Sentence: Seeking self-realization and spiritual cybessence, Bob idiosurfed from morning to night.
Etymology: Blend of IDIO: A combining form from the Greek 'i`dios, meaning one's own, private, personal, peculiar, distinct. & SURF: to search through (a computer network or TV channels) for information
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COMMENTS:
Been there, done that. - Mustang, 2008-11-14: 07:02:00
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Wikineedia
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: wick - i - knee- dee - yah (emphasis on the I need)
Sentence: Jerome often displayed a wikineedia type behavior to check for his name on every sight he went to.
Etymology: wikipedia + i need
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COMMENTS:
Great one. - Nuwanda, 2008-11-14: 11:07:00
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Egotistigoogle
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: ee - go - TIS - tuh - googl
Sentence: Seth was such an egomaniac he spent much of his surfing effort egotistigoogling hoping to find that he was being discussed favorably on the net.
Etymology: Egotistical + google searching
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COMMENTS:
excellent! you'll be seeing a lot more of yourself in future! - galwaywegian, 2008-01-23: 04:57:00
lol, cool word! 8) - Dougalistic, 2008-01-23: 07:22:00
Funny Galway man. Who'd a thunk it! - scrabbelicious, 2008-01-23: 11:20:00
Good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-23: 15:59:00
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Mevestigate
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mee ves tig ayt
Sentence: Hamela Hamderson, the cheeky Hamster would mevestigate herself on the Internet everyday. She was always finding news items, pictures and embarrassing Youtube submissions about her latest capers. It was surprising, as she was normally a humble hamster. It was also surprising that a rodent could read, write and use the Internet better than most humans.
Etymology: Me (first person singular;myself) & Investigate (conduct an inquiry or investigation of;seek information about)
Googlemasochism
Created by: logarithm
Pronunciation: gōō'gəl-mas-uh-kiz-uhm
Sentence:
Etymology: Google: To search for information using the Google search engine. Masochism: A psychological disorder in which sexual gratification is derived from being physically or emotionally abused.
Paranerdia
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: para-NER-dee-uh
Sentence: When Chip sat down at his 286 Laptop, the first thing he checked was his e-mail. Verbotomy came next, then a brief look at Myspace to see which spammer had a crush on him. After a quick look at the bleakness of Facebook and a quick foray into E-Bay for a fruitless search for trinkets, he inevitably succumbed to PARANERDIA and Googled all the usernames he ever used...just to be sure his aliases weren't taken over by foreign terrorists. Chip was extremely dismayed when he discovered that "Metrodad" still existed on a crappy "free" dating site called AmericanSingles which he foolishly posted ten years ago, in a late night rush of drunken optimism. Now there was a permablob about him in the etherial cyberuniverse of the WorldWideWaste which no power on earth could remove, and constantly nurtured his latent PARANERDIA now rising within his breast like the feeble winter sun he had come to loathe.
Etymology: PARAnoia+NERD+paranoIA=PARANERDIA......PARANOIA:a psychosis characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations,excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others, including websites; New Latin, from Greek, madness, from paranous demented, from para- + nous mind........NERD: an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person ; especially : one slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits;perhaps from nerd, a creature in the children's book If I Ran the Zoo (1950) by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel).
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COMMENTS:
"The 10,000 Fingers of Doctor T" was Dr Seuss's ONLY movie...A cult classic starring Hans Conried, and pretty bizarre at that. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-14: 02:34:00
I think a paranerdia is twice as bad as a single one! - Nosila, 2008-11-14: 23:55:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by yellowbird. Thank you yellowbird. ~ James
yellowbird - 2008-01-23: 12:32:00
I had to suggest this one, since it's impossible to say 'He googled himself." with a straight face. :)
bananabender - 2008-01-23: 18:56:00
Great words to-day folks! Another fun day!
Hi everyone, thought I'd come back and see if there were some new cartoons. Some real die hards still here I see.
Nosila - 2008-11-14: 22:00:00
Welcome back, petaj...hope you are rejoining us soon! Cheers!
mweinmann - 2008-11-15: 08:24:00
I am going on vacation....no words from me next week. Have a great word week. I have given my logon to my daughter who is great with words but she probably won't have time to create any!!
Today's definition was suggested by yellowbird. Thank you yellowbird. ~ James