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selfy en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

See selfie

Meanings

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

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selfy en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From self + -y.

Meanings

  1. 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 1991, The New York Times Book Review, volume 96, page 60: