selfie

From self +‎ -ie. Attested since 2002, originally Australian English.

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlfi/

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Astronaut taking a selfie during a spacewalk in 2012.

selfie (plural selfies)

1. (informal, mobile telephony) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.
   • 2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches" , ABC Online Forum selfie photo:

     Um, drunk at a mates^[sic] 21st, I tripped ofer^[sic] and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie.

   • 2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos." , Flickr:

     Pre. Nice rooftop selfie. […] No Hair. Another nice rooftop selfie.

   • 2005, Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index, HOW Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 148:

     That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie.

   • 2012 December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A Selfie” , the picture show, National Public Radio
   • 2013 December 13, Roberto Schmidt (guest), Brooke Gladstone (interviewer and editor), “The Photographer Behind ‘Selfie-Gate’”, On the Media, National Public Radio:

     Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.

   • 2017, Lord Stag, “Say Cheese”, in Lily's Driftwood Bay:

     I shall take this photograph myself. This must be what they call a selfie.

   take a selfie

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.[1] A self-portrait of multiple people is sometimes called an ussie, groupie, or selvesie.

• self-portrait

selfie (third-person singular simple present selfies, present participle selfying, simple past and past participle selfied)

1. (intransitive, informal, mobile telephony) To take a selfie.

• Selfie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Selfies on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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Borrowed from English selfie.

selfie

1. selfie

Borrowed from English selfie.

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selfie m (plural selfies, diminutive selfietje n)

1. selfie

   Synonym: otofoto

• stemfie
• zelfje

From English selfie

• IPA^(key): /ˈselfi/, [ˈs̠e̞lfi]

selfie

1. selfie

• teinipeili
• omakuva

• “selfie”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Borrowed from English selfie.

• IPA^(key): /sɛl.fi/

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selfie m or f (plural selfies)

1. selfie

   Synonyms: autophoto, égoportrait

Unadapted borrowing from English selfie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛl.fi/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlfi
• Syllabification: sel‧fie

selfie n (indeclinable)

1. (informal, mobile telephony, photography) selfie

   Synonyms: selfiaczek, selfiak, selficzek, selfik, samojebka, samolubka, sweet focia

• selfie in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• selfie in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English selfie.[1][2]

selfie f or (Brazil, less common) m (plural selfies)

1. (proscribed) selfie (photographic self-portrait)

Unadapted borrowing from English selfie.

• selfi

• IPA^(key): /ˈselfi/ [ˈsel.fi]
• Rhymes: -elfi

selfie m or (less common) f (plural selfies)

1. selfie

   Synonym: autofoto

   • 2022, Bad Bunny (lyrics and music), “Tití Me Preguntó”, in Un Verano Sin Ti:

     Vamo' a tirarno' un selfie, say "cheese", ey

     Let’s take a selfie, say “cheese”, hey

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈselfje/ [ˈsel.fje]
• Rhymes: -elfje
• Syllabification: sel‧fie

selfie

1. inflection of selfiar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative