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selfy

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Etymology 1

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See selfie

Noun

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selfy (plural selfies)

  1. Alternative form of selfie
    • 2013 November 22, “Selfytising - A New Genre In Advertising?”, in Forbes:
      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.

Etymology 2

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From self +‎ -y.

Adjective

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selfy

  1. (philosophy) Relating to the phenomenological human sense of self.
    • 1991, The New York Times Book Review[1], volume 96, page 60:
      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

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