English

Noun

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 (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” , 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.

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

Derived terms

Translations

Hypernyms

• self-portrait

Verb

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

Translations

References

1. ↑ What Makes a Selfie a Selfie?, Gretchen McCulloch, Slate, April 1 2014

Finnish

Etymology

from English

Noun

selfie

1. selfie

Declension

See also

• teinipeili
• omakuva

French

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛl.fi/

Noun

selfie m, f ‎(plural selfies)

1. selfie

Synonyms

• autophoto
• égoportrait

Portuguese

Etymology

From English selfie.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛw.fi/

Noun

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

1. selfie (photographic self-portrait)

Spanish

Etymology

English

Alternative forms

• selfi

Noun

selfie m ‎(plural selfies)

1. selfie

Synonyms

• autofoto