egoboo

Blend of ego +‎ boost

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːɡəʊˌbuː/

egoboo (uncountable)

1. (dated, fandom slang) The pleasant feeling derived from seeing one's name in print.
   • 1948 February, Sneary, Rick, “[letter column]”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 31, number 3, page 98:

     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.

   • 1959, Eney, Richard "Dick" Harris, Fancyclopedia II‎, Egoboo:

     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.

   • 1976 November, Hoffman, Lee, “Editorial”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly‎, number 6, page 4:

     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.

   • 2012 July 1, David Langford, “Ansible 300”, in Ansible‎, retrieved 2017-07-04:

     Relaxing the stern Ansible rule of omitting mere egoboo, here's a selection from the 'Gosh, isn't 300 a shiny round number' postbag.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:egoboo.

• egoscan

• “egoboo” in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 49.
• egoboo n. at the OED Science Fiction Citations Project