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ego-surf

ego-surf is the alternative spelling of egosurf.

Meaning of egosurf

Verb

egosurf (third-person singular simple present egosurfs, present participle egosurfing, simple past and past participle egosurfed)

  1. To search the Internet for references to one's name or works in order to gratify one's ego.
    • My little sister Pixie was on the computer. As is the custom, I moaned at her to get off (feigning non-existent A-level work I had to do "before it's too late"), then noticed a page full of pictures of her. "Hah! Ego-surfing again, are we?" I cried jubilantly.2007 March 30, Peaches Geldof, “It may start as innocent flirtation, but be warned, you too could become a lonely MySpace addict”, in The Guardian

Forms of ego-surf

third-person singular presentego-surfs
present participleego-surfing
past participleego-surfed
pastego-surfed

Questions about ego-surf

What is ego-surf the alternative spelling of?
Ego-surf is the alternative spelling of egosurf.

Words near ego-surf in the dictionary

  1. ego-expansion
  2. ego-minded
  3. ego-mindedness
  4. ego-self
  5. ego-selves
  6. ego-surf
  7. ego-surfed
  8. ego-surfing
  9. ego-surfs
  10. ego-syntonic
  11. ego-trip

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ego-surf (page history and authors); egosurf (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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