different between shelfie vs selfie

English

Etymology

From shelf +? -ie, by analogy with selfie.

Noun

shelfie (plural shelfies)

1. (slang) A photograph of a bookshelf/bookcase taken by its owner and shared on social media.
   • 2013, Hector Tobar, "Hey everybody, let's 'shelfie!'", Los Angeles Times, 18 December 2013:

     Besides a feline closeup she’s placed on one shelf, and an opera mask on another, her shelfie shows a wonderful collection of books about music, including “The Rough Guide to Opera,” several biographies of Mozart and the history “Women Making Music.”

   • 2014, Dale Hrabi, "The Rise of the 'Shelfie': Instagram's Next Craze", The Wall Street Journal, 25 April 2014:

     She's certainly observed the rate at which people are posting shelfies on Instagram.

   • 2014, "Sharing your shelfie", Winnipeg Free Press, 31 May 2014:

     Some practitioners have tried to position the shelfie as "the intellectual's selfie," making it seem like some digital form of 17th-century Dutch still-life painting.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:shelfie.

See also

• Bookstagram

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?lfi/

Noun

selfie (plural selfies)

2. (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" [1], 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." [2], Flickr:

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

   • 2005, Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index, HOW Books (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” [3], 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", Lily's Driftwood Bay

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

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, or by blending, as in nelfie. A self-portrait of multiple people is sometimes called an ussie, groupie, or selvesie.

Hypernyms

• self-portrait

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• e-files

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English selfie.

Noun

selfie

1. selfie

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English selfie.

Pronunciation

Noun

selfie m (plural selfies, diminutive selfietje n)

1. selfie

   Synonym: otofoto

Derived terms

• stemfie
• zelfje

Finnish

Etymology

from English selfie

Noun

selfie

1. selfie

Declension

See also

• teinipeili
• omakuva

French

Etymology

From English selfie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?l.fi/

Noun

selfie m or f (plural selfies)

1. selfie

Synonyms

• autophoto
• égoportrait

Polish

Etymology

From English selfie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?l.f?i/

Noun

selfie n (indeclinable)

1. (informal, mobile telephony) selfie

   Synonym: samojebka

Further reading

• selfie in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• selfie in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English selfie.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

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

References

Spanish

Alternative forms

• selfi, celfi

Etymology

From English selfie.

Noun

selfie m or f (plural selfies)

1. selfie

   Synonym: autofoto