Selfie

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈsÉ›lfi/

Origin

From self + -ie.

Full definition of selfie

Noun

1. (slang) 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" http://www2b.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/archives/archive32/newposts/169/topic169861.shtm, ABC Online Forum :Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped ofer 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." http://wayback.archive.org/web/20041126014124/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcguirk/, Flickr:Pre. Nice rooftop selfie. ... No Hair. Another nice rooftop selfie.
• 2005, Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index, HOW Books (2005), ISBN 9781581807660, 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” http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/12/27/168139129/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.

Hypernyms

• self-portrait

Verb

1. (intransitive, slang) to take a selfie