"velfie" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: velfies [plural]
Etymology: Blend of video + selfie. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|video|selfie}} Blend of video + selfie Head templates: {{en-noun}} velfie (plural velfies)
  1. (neologism, chiefly India) A video selfie. Tags: India, neologism
    Sense id: en-velfie-en-noun-VfSbIVAw Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, English neologisms, Indian English

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for velfie meaning in English (1.9kB)

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          "ref": "March 2015, Digit, Siddharth Parwatay, \"From Selfies to Selflessness\", p. 3",
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          "ref": "7/10/2015, Voice of Asia, Peter Hutchison, \"When a selfie is not enough: India abuzz over 'velfie' craze\", p. 14",
          "text": "Move over selfie, India is embracing the \"velfie\" with Bollywood stars, sporting heroes, and even politicians taking and posting videos of themselves online using a range of new mobile apps."
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          "ref": "10/26/2015, Pakistan Today, \"Peace call goes viral\", p. 2",
          "text": "In the winter of 2014 the writer and ad filmmaker had spun off the first Indian velfie (video selfies) movement with a three-minute film titled Pause that compared the Indo-Pak boundaries to walls between homes and led to a movement called Dear Neighbour that is currently on the trending charts with a spate of #ProfileForPeace messages on its wall."
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