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Selfy vs Shelfy - What's the difference?

selfy | shelfy |

As adjectives the difference between selfy and shelfy

is that selfy is relating to the phenomenological human sense of self while shelfy is abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.

As a noun selfy

is alternative form of selfie.

selfy

English

Etymology 1

See selfie

Noun

(selfies)
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    • Etymology 2

    Adjective

  • (philosophy) Relating to the phenomenological human sense of self.
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    • shelfy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.
    • A shelfy coast. — Dryden.
  • (obsolete) Full of strata of rock.
    • The tillable fields are in some places so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root. — Carew.

    Synonyms

    * shelvy (Webster 1913)