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SELFIE
Etymology
Noun
selfie (plural selfies)
(informal, mobile phones) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.
Usage notes
Usage is very varied, including photos of oneself that are not taken by oneself (not self-portraits), as in “Could you take a selfie of me?” (compare autobiography, which may be written by a ghostwriter), or not only of oneself, as in “This is a selfie of me and my sister.” Many terms for recently popular photo genres have been coined by analogy by suffixing -ie, as in shelfie, or by blending, as in nelfie. A self-portrait of multiple people is sometimes called an ussie, groupie, or selvesie.
Hypernyms
• self-portrait
Verb
selfie (third-person singular simple present selfies, present participle selfying, simple past and past participle selfied)
(intransitive, informal, mobile phones) to take a selfie
Anagrams
• e-files
Source: Wiktionary
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