"egoboo" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1948 February, Rick Sneary, “[letter column]”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 31, number 3, page 98:",
          "text": "Well after the pile of ego-boo I got in the Oct. issue I just couldn't let it slip by without telling you what I think of this much heralded issue.",
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          "ref": "1959, Richard \"Dick\" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Egoboo:",
          "text": "Fandom may be defined as an infinitely complex system for the production of pure egoboo. Indeed, the universe itself was created for egoboo (Psalms 145:10) if we are to believe the stories.",
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          "ref": "1976 November, Lee Hoffman, “Editorial”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 6, page 4:",
          "text": "So this lustrum, yhos sits upon a bed of laurels, basking in the glow of past achievement and anticipating fresh shipments of egoboo, while Terry Hughes does the donkey drudgery of producing this issue.",
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          "ref": "2012 July 14, David Langford, “Ansible 300”, in Ansible, retrieved 2017-07-04:",
          "text": "Relaxing the stern Ansible rule of omitting mere egoboo, here's a selection from the 'Gosh, isn't 300 a shiny round number' postbag.",
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        "The pleasant feeling derived from seeing one's name in print."
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        "(dated, fandom slang) The pleasant feeling derived from seeing one's name in print."
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          "word": "egoscan"
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        "Egoboo"
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          "ref": "1948 February, Rick Sneary, “[letter column]”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 31, number 3, page 98:",
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        },
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          "ref": "1959, Richard \"Dick\" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Egoboo:",
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          "ref": "1976 November, Lee Hoffman, “Editorial”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 6, page 4:",
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          "text": "Relaxing the stern Ansible rule of omitting mere egoboo, here's a selection from the 'Gosh, isn't 300 a shiny round number' postbag.",
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        }
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